Internal medicine journal
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Internal medicine journal · Sep 2002
Case ReportsVariegate porphyria in Western Australian Aboriginal patients.
Survivors of shipwrecks along the Western Australian coast may have introduced a mutation for variegate porphyria into the Aboriginal population prior to first settlement. ⋯ Results suggest that the mutations causing variegate porphyria in the Western Australian Aboriginal population occur sporadically and were not inherited from shipwrecked sailors.