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What is Haemochromatosis?

What is Haemochromatosis?

The gene that causes Haemochromatosis could be carried by one in eight Irish people, but what is it?

BBC News NI Health Correspondent Marie-Louise Connolly explains.

  • Published
    2 March 2018
  • Section
    BBC News
  • Subsection
    Northern Ireland
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