Researchers have mapped the genetic risk of hemochromatosis across the UK and Ireland for the first time, uncovering striking hotspots in north-west Ireland and the Outer Hebrides. In some regions, around one in 60 people carry the high-risk gene variant linked to iron overload. The condition can take decades to surface but may lead to liver cancer and arthritis if untreated.
I may be dumb, which I am, but there does not seem to be a link to an article to describe what this is here, and there is no description in the post. While I did get the gist from the comments, if let me needs this community Opie should post a link to what the fuck it even is thank you very much. Wich I now know to be absorbing iron too effectively to have too much of it because of a low iron diet in the Celtic areas of the far north.
Should be fixed. Adding an image replaced the article URL and I didn’t notice