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Case Reports
. 1990 Nov-Dec;5(6):705-7.
doi: 10.1111/j.1440-1746.1990.tb01130.x.

Wilson's disease in an Australian aborigine

D H Crawford  1 , R Shepherd, W G Cooksley, M Patrick, L W Powell
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Case Reports

Wilson's disease in an Australian aborigine

D H Crawford et al. J Gastroenterol Hepatol. 1990 Nov-Dec.

Abstract

Wilson's disease is due to a genetically determined defect inherited as an autosomal recessive trait. Most reported cases have been caucasoid. This report describes a case of Wilson's disease in an Australian Aboriginal girl, only the second such case reported.

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  • Genetic heterogeneity in Wilson's disease.
    Summers KM. Summers KM. J Gastroenterol Hepatol. 1990 Nov-Dec;5(6):697-9. doi: 10.1111/j.1440-1746.1990.tb01127.x. J Gastroenterol Hepatol. 1990. PMID: 2129842 No abstract available.

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