Table 1 .

HFE genotype of the whole population referred for a personal or family history of iron overload (patients) compared with a control group (controls) from our area (1276 unselected newborns)⁴

HFE genotype	Patients		Controls
	n	%	n	%
m1m1	178	18.4	2	0.2
m1N	141	14.6	58	4.6
m1m2	85	8.8	15	1.2
m2m2	60	6.2	36	2.8
m2N	170	17.6	345	27.0
NN	334	34.5	820	64.3
Total	968	100	1276	100

m1, C282Y; m2, H63D; N, wild-type.