Table 2. Serum and liver iron indices in wild type and Hjv−/− mice of 129S6/SvEvTac or C57BL/6 genetic background (n = 10 male C57BL/6 mice for each genotype; n = 5 male 129S6/SvEvTac mice for each genotype).

Genotype	wild type	wild type	Hjv−/−	Hjv−/−
Strain	129S6/SvEvTac	C57BL/6	129S6/SvEvTac	C57BL/6
Serum iron (µmol/L)	34.40±2.015	26.20±1.597**	56.80±3.734	48.50±1.682*
Tf saturation (%)	54.60±4.226	50.10±2.755	96.50±0.2887	79.14±2.219***
Liver iron (µg/g dry tissue)	652.1±68.31	255.6±11.01***	7340±776.0	6070±411.3

p<0.05;

p<0.01;

p<0.001 vs 129S6/SvEvTac mice of the same genotype (Student’s t test).

All differences among wild type and Hjv−/− mice of the same strain are statistically significant (p values not shown).