[We show that in this family the mutation which is fully penetrant, may act through an increased iron export from macrophages as suggested by the unexpected absence of iron overload in the spleen and bone marrow detected by magnetic resonance imaging, that it co-segregates with a phenotype close to the classical form of HFE-associated hemochromatosis and was associated, in the oldest patient, with the development of hepatocellular carcinoma in a non cirrhotic liver.]. Sentence from MEDLINE/PubMed, a database of the U.S. National Library of Medicine.
Gene-disease associations inferred from text-mining the literature.
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