Canadian Journal of Gastroenterology (Jan 2008)
Clinical Manifestations of Hemochromatosis in HFE C282Y Homozygotes Identified by Screening
- Gordon D McLaren,
- Christine E McLaren,
- Paul C Adams,
- James C Barton,
- David M Reboussin,
- Victor R Gordeuk,
- Ronald T Acton,
- Emily L Harris,
- Mark R Speechley,
- Phyliss Sholinsky,
- Fitzroy W Dawkins,
- Beverly M Snively,
- Thomas M Vogt,
- John H Eckfeldt,
- for the Hemochromatosis and Iron Overload Screening (HEIRS) Study Research Investigators
Affiliations
- Gordon D McLaren
- Department of Veterans Affairs Long Beach Healthcare System, Long Beach, and Division of Hematology/Oncology, Department of Medicine, University of California, Irvine, USA
- Christine E McLaren
- Epidemiology Division, Department of Medicine, University of California, Irvine, California, USA
- Paul C Adams
- Department of Medicine, London Health Sciences Centre, London, Ontario, Canada
- James C Barton
- Southern Iron Disorders Center, Birmingham, Alabama, USA
- David M Reboussin
- Department of Public Health Sciences, Wake Forest University School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, USA
- Victor R Gordeuk
- Department of Medicine, Howard University, Washington DC, USA
- Ronald T Acton
- Departments of Microbiology, Medicine, Genetics and Epidemiology and International Health, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Alabama, USA
- Emily L Harris
- Kaiser Permanente Center for Health Research, Portland, Oregon, current affiliation: Population Genomics, National Human Genome Research Institute, National Institutes of Health, Department of Health and Human Services, Bethesda, Maryland, USA
- Mark R Speechley
- Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada
- Phyliss Sholinsky
- Epidemiology Branch, National Heart Lung and Blood Institute, National Institutes of Health, Department of Health and Human Services, Bethesda, Maryland, USA
- Fitzroy W Dawkins
- Department of Medicine, Howard University, Washington DC, USA
- Beverly M Snively
- Department of Public Health Sciences, Wake Forest University School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, USA
- Thomas M Vogt
- Kaiser Permanente Center for Health Research, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA
- John H Eckfeldt
- Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
- for the Hemochromatosis and Iron Overload Screening (HEIRS) Study Research Investigators
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1155/2008/907356
- Journal volume & issue
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Vol. 22,
no. 11
pp. 923 – 930
Abstract
BACKGROUND: Patients with hemochromatosis may suffer organ damage from iron overload, often with serious clinical consequences.
