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Volume 344:1477-1478 May 10, 2001 Number 19
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Disease-Related Conditions in Relatives of Patients with Hemochromatosis

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To the Editor: A decision on whether to recommend population screening for hereditary hemochromatosis requires information on disease penetrance — that is, the fraction of persons with a hemochromatosis genotype who will develop clinical symptoms of the disease if they are not treated. Bulaj et al. (Nov. 23 issue)1 derive a "minimal estimate" of the penetrance of hereditary hemochromatosis by studying the frequency of symptoms among relatives of patients with hemochromatosis identified on the basis of elevated transferrin-saturation values, rather than clinical symptoms. They calculate the minimal estimate of the incidence of disease-related conditions among homozygous relatives of these patients . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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