Scientists Identify Mechanism Driving Iron Overload In Blood Disease Beta-Thalassemia - Two Genes Interact To Control Iron Absorption

... Led by researchers at Weill Cornell Medical College in New York City, an international group of scientists has pinpointed a specific genetic relationship as the cause of dangerous iron overload in persons with a form of the inherited blood disease, beta-thalassemia. "Iron overload remains the biggest threat to the health of patients with thalassemia," says the study's senior author Dr. [click link for full article] ...