Public health aspects of genetic screening for hereditary haemochromatosis in Australia

• Main Authors: Dorota M. Gertig (Author), Ashley Fletcher (Author), John L. Hopper (Author)
• Formato: Livro
• Publicado em: Elsevier, 2002-12-01T00:00:00Z.
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Abstract Hereditary haemochromatosis (HH) is an inherited disorder of iron absorption. It meets several of the key public health principles for population‐based screening and is considered to be a test‐case for public health genetics However, there has been relatively little debate in the public hea...