Iron genes, iron load and risk of Alzheimer's disease.
BACKGROUND: Compound heterozygotes of the haemochromatosis gene (HFE) variants, H63D and C282Y, have raised transferrin saturation compared with that in the wild type. In the cohort of the Oxford Project To Investigate Memory and Ageing (OPTIMA), bicarriers of the HFE C282Y and the transferrin C2 g...
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| Format: | Journal article |
| Language: | English |
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2006
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