[It is less well established that the prevalence of the HFE mutations is increased in alcoholic liver disease and in chronic viral hepatitis, but in both conditions, patients harboring one of these mutations, especially C282Y, are more likely to have advanced hepatic fibrosis or cirrhosis.]. Sentence from MEDLINE/PubMed, a database of the U.S. National Library of Medicine.
Gene-disease associations inferred from text-mining the literature.
DisGeNET evidence - LITERATURE