@article{6c198becd6c042f89aee80b00e78f5a3,
title = "Was the C282Y mutation an Irish Gaelic mutation that the Vikings helped disseminate?: HLA haplotype observations of hemochromatosis from the west coast of Sweden",
abstract = "The HLA-related hemochromatosis mutation C282Y is thought to have originated in Ireland in a person with HLA-A3-B14 and was spread by Vikings. Irish people with two HLA-A3 alleles had a high risk of hemochromatosis. In this study, from west Sweden, we wanted to test these hypotheses.",
keywords = "Case-Control Studies, Europe, Founder Effect, Gene Frequency, Genetics, Population, Genotype, HLA-A3 Antigen, Haplotypes, Hemochromatosis, History, Medieval, Humans, Ireland, Linkage Disequilibrium, Mutation, Missense, Pedigree, Sweden",
author = "Olsson, {Karl Sigvard} and Jan Konar and Dufva, {Inge Hoegh} and Anne Ricksten and Ruma Raha-Chowdhury",
note = "{\textcopyright} 2010 John Wiley & Sons A/S.",
year = "2011",
doi = "10.1111/j.1600-0609.2010.01536.x",
language = "English",
volume = "86",
pages = "75--82",
journal = "European Journal of Haematology",
issn = "0902-4441",
publisher = "Wiley-Blackwell Munksgaard",
number = "1",
}