WILSONS-DISEASE.ORG.UK

Wilson's disease is a hepatolenticular degeneration, which is genetically determined. It causes a mutation of a gene that is responsible for a protein involved in copper metabolism... Resultant defect in the gene leads to disturbance of copper metabolism. Copper accumulates since the beginning of life of the patient and stores primarily in the liver and the brain, eye corneas and kidneys. As a result, of all these organs are damaged.

Primary location: United Kingdom