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L-Ferritin: One Gene, Five Diseases; from Hereditary Hyperferritinemia to Hypoferritinemia—Report of New Cases

  • Beatriz Cadenas,
  • Josep Fita-Torró,
  • Mar Bermúdez-Cortés,
  • Inés Hernandez-Rodriguez and ,
  • José Luis Fuster,
  • María Esther Llinares,
  • Ana María Galera,
  • Julia Lee Romero,
  • Santiago Pérez-Montero and
  • Mayka Sanchez
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Pharmaceuticals2019, 12(1), 17;https://doi.org/10.3390/ph12010017

23 January 2019

Ferritin is a multimeric protein composed of light (L-ferritin) and heavy (H-ferritin) subunits that binds and stores iron inside the cell. A variety of mutations have been reported in the L-ferritin subunit gene (FTL gene) that cause the following f...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Iron as Therapeutic Targets in Human Diseases)
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