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tptacek 2 hours ago

What's the base rate of hemachromatosis in the population and what's the false positive rate for MRI detection of the condition?

giantg2 2 hours ago | parent [-]

MRI does not diagnose hemachromatosis. It detects iron deposits (could be due to other harmful issues). To my knowledge it would not produce a false positive. Hemachromatosis is the most common genetic issue in white people, so pretty common (I'm too lazy to look up stats).