TY - BOOK AU - Doaa Mohammed Taher Abdelmohsen AU - Eman Moawad Mohammed Gouda , AU - Magdy Ahmed Elsayed Ghoniem , AU - Nermeen Ahmed Eldesoukey , TI - Frequency of hemochromatosis (HFE ) gene mutations among B - thalassaemic patients with iron overload / PY - 2010/// CY - Cairo : PB - Doaa Mohammed Taher Abdelmohsen , KW - Hemochromatosis (HFE ) gene KW - Hereditary hemochromatosis (HH ) KW - Ý- thalassemia N1 - Thesis (M.Sc.) - Cairo University - Faculty of Veterinary Medicine - Department of Biochemistry and Chemistry of Nutrition; Issued also as CD N2 - Ý- thalassemia one of the most severe form of thalassemia is caused by defective globin production that causes anemia and also it results in iron overload which is the major cause of Ý- thalassemia mortality worldwide . Hereditary hemochromatosis is a disorder of iron metabolism characterized by increased iron intake and progressive storage and is related to mutations in the HFE gene ER -