HFE mutations and iron overload in patients with alcoholic liver disease

Arquivos de Gastroenterologia

Volumn 50, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 35-41

  Costa Matos, Luís ^a,b   Batista, Paulo ^b   Monteiro, Nuno ^b   Henriques, Pedro ^b   Girão, Fernando ^b   Carvalho, Armando ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COIMBRA   (Portugal)

^b Centro Hospitalar Tondela Viseu   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Alcoholic liver disease; Hemochromatosis; Iron; Membrane proteins

Indexed keywords

FERRITIN; TRANSFERRIN;

ADULT; ALCOHOL LIVER DISEASE; ARTICLE; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; GENE; GENE MUTATION; HEMOCHROMATOSIS; HFE GENE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IRON OVERLOAD; LIVER BIOPSY; LIVER FIBROSIS; LIVER FUNCTION TEST; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIVARIATE LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; PREVALENCE; RISK;

CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; HISTOCOMPATIBILITY ANTIGENS CLASS I; HUMANS; IRON OVERLOAD; LIVER DISEASES, ALCOHOLIC; MALE; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MIDDLE AGED; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

EID: 84876818198     PISSN: 00042803     EISSN: 16784219     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1590/S0004-28032013000100008     Document Type: Article

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