A candidate gene, HFE, was recently described in patients with hereditary hemochromatosis (HH) and found to contain a missense mutation leading to a cysteine to tyrosine substitution (C282Y). A second mutation, H63D, was also found in the gene. This study was undertaken to determine the HFE genotype
Outcome of liver transplantation in hereditary hemochromatosis
✍ Scribed by Faisal S Dar; Walid Faraj; Muhammad B Zaman; Adam Bartlett; Adrian Bomford; Adrian O’Sullivan; John O’Grady; Michael Heneghan; Mohamed Rela; Nigel D Heaton
- Book ID
- 110917213
- Publisher
- Springer
- Year
- 2009
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 201 KB
- Volume
- 22
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0934-0874
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