Iron and infection: effects of host iron status and the iron-regulatory genes haptoglobin and NRAMP1 (SLC11A1) on host-pathogen interactions in tuberculosis and HIV.
Haptoglobin type neither influences iron accumulation in normal subjects nor predicts clinical presentation in HFE C282Yhaemochromatosis: phenotype and genotype analysis.
The Hp polymorphism is related to the prevalence and the outcome of various pathological conditions with altered iron metabolism such as hemochromatosis, infections, and atherosclerotic vascular disease.