Hemochromatosis 1991. What will increased clinical screening mean for medical directors?
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چکیده
Hereditary hemochromatosis has an autosomal recessive inheritance pattern. The homozygous diseased state occurs in 50 of 10,000 and the heterozygous non-diseased carrier state in 1000 of 10,000 caucasians.3 The typical case has two unaffected heterozygote carrier parents. However, HH can occur in consecutive generations owing to the chance mating between an as-yet-undetected homozygote and a heterozygote.
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ورودعنوان ژورنال:
- Journal of insurance medicine
دوره 23 4 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 1991