[Other recent evidence indicates that the prevalence of HFE gene mutations is increased in chronic viral hepatitis and that patients with chronic hepatitis C harboring especially the C282Y mutation are more likely to suffer from advanced hepatic fibrosis or cirrhosis and to do so at younger ages.]. 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