To test whether families unlinked to this major locus showed evidence for linkage elsewhere in the genome, we carried out an additional analysis in which weights 0 or 1 were assigned to each family ...
Juvenile hemochromatosis (JH) is a rare autosomal recessive disorder that causes iron overload. In the French Canadian region of Saguenay Lac-Saint-Jean the worldwide largest cohort of JH cases has ...