I recently graduated in medicine from Townsville, Australia, and I still enjoy writing blogs on medicine and pharmacy-related topics. I appreciate writing about my experience on different placements or topics I'm interested in. As English is my second language, writing blogs is a hobby and a fun challenge!
All tagged Homozygotes
Sheryl and Tom live in Townsville, a sunny city residing on the coast in North of Queensland, Australia. Having lived her whole life mostly asymptomatically, it wasn’t until in 1998 that Sheryl has been diagnosed with Haemochromatosis, and upon doing the genetic test, was found to be homozygous C282Y.
The first description of haemochromatosis was done in 1865 by Dr Trousseau written in the French pathology literature. Later in 1889, it was described by the German pathologist von Recklinghausen who first used the term haemochromatosis meaning pigmentation/colour ‘chrom’ and ‘heam’ which is a prefix referring to the blood.
