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We investigated 33 of 58 members of two families with latent or precirrhotic hemochromatosis to determine its pattern of inheritance and to evaluate the serum ferritin levels as an index of iron stores. In both families, the pattern of inheritance was as an autosomal dominant trait with incomplete expressivity. Mean serum ferritin values in the affected family members were 88.5 ng per milliliter (range, 28.0 to 201.9) for males and 65.2 ng per milliter (range 23.7 to 97.0) for females, which were no different from controls (P is less than 0.5). Furthermore, the serum ferritin values did not correlate with or reflect mobilizable iron stores, and there were no relations between the serum iron, iron-binding capacity and transferrin saturation (P is less than 0.2). Thus, serum ferritin concentrations in precirrhotic familial hemochromatosis appear to underestimate iron stores. Serum ferritin levels do not help to identify such patients with increased iron stores for therapeutic phlebotomy.
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