HFE, hepcidin and ferroportin gene mutations are not present in Indian patients with primary haemochromatosis

National Medical Journal of India

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 20-23

  Shukla, Priyanka ^a   Jukla, Sandeep ^a   Bhatia, Eesh ^a   Shah, Sudeep ^b   Nagral, Aabha ^c   Aggarwal, Rakesh ^a  

^a SANJAY GANDHI POSTGRADUATE INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (India)

^b P D HINDUJA NATIONAL HOSPITAL   (India)

^c JASLOK HOSPITAL AND RESEARCH CENTRE   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FERROPORTIN 1; GENOMIC DNA; HEPCIDIN; HFE PROTEIN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DNA SEQUENCE; DNA SPLICING; EXON; FEMALE; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC CODE; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; HEMOCHROMATOSIS; HETEROZYGOSITY; HOMOZYGOSITY; HUMAN; INDIA; IRON METABOLISM; MALE; MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SIBLING;

ADULT; ANTIMICROBIAL CATIONIC PEPTIDES; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CATION TRANSPORT PROTEINS; FEMALE; HEMOCHROMATOSIS; HISTOCOMPATIBILITY ANTIGENS CLASS I; HUMANS; INDIA; IRON; MALE; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MIDDLE AGED; MUTATION;

EID: 33645470412     PISSN: 0970258X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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