A retrospective anonymous pilot study in
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Alison T. Merryweather-Clarke; Henrik Siimonsen; Jeremy D. Shearman; Jennifer J.
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Article
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1999
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John Wiley and Sons
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English
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We have retrospectively analyzed 837 random anonymized dried blood spot (DBS) samples from neonatal screening programs in Scandinavia for mutations in HFE, the candidate gene for hemochromatosis. We have found C282Y allele frequencies of 2.3% (+2.0%) (-1.3%) in Greenland, 4.5%+/-1.9% in Iceland, 5.1