Wilson's disease in an Australian aborigine.
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.
Crawford
D H
DH
Department of Medicine, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia.
Shepherd
R
R
Cooksley
W G
WG
Patrick
M
M
Powell
L W
LW
D002648:Child; D003300:Copper / Q000378:metabolism; D005260:Female; D005808:Genes, Recessive; D006527:Hepatolenticular Degeneration / Q000208:ethnology* / Q000235:genetics; D006801:Humans; D015994:Incidence; D011793:Queensland / Q000453:epidemiology
D003300:Copper