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Complete Information on Atransferrinemia with Treatment and Prevention

POSTED BY admin on May 11, 2008 under Health

Atranferrinemia is a genetic disorder wherein the plasma protein that carries iron in the blood stream is lacking.

Atransferrinemia is transmitted or inherited via an autosomal recessive trait. Autosomal means that the chromosomes in question are not sex chromosomes therefore are related to chromosomes that do not include any sex chromosomes and recessive meaning that individuals that inherited this disease have done by so by having two copies of the mutant gene that causes it from each parent. Being atransferrinemia a very rare disease, it is difficult to have all the medical and legal information needed when taking on it. In addition, it is not always possible to see from a transversal insight what happens when someone is diagnosed with this disease.

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