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. 1997 Feb;34(2):148–151. doi: 10.1136/jmg.34.2.148

Haemochromatosis: a gene at last?

K J Robson 1, J D Shearman 1, A T Merryweather-Clarke 1, J J Pointon 1, W M Rosenberg 1, A P Walker 1, J S Dooley 1, A Bomford 1, R Raha-Chowdhury 1, M Worwood 1
PMCID: PMC1050870  PMID: 9039993

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