Stalking.] [AS. staelcan, stealcian to go slowly; cf. stealc high, elevated, Dan. stalke to stalk; probably akin to 1st stalk.] 1. To walk slowly and cautiously; to walk in a stealthy, noiseless manner; -- sometimes used with a reflexive pronoun. --Shak.
In the case of hemochromatosis, it is believed that a single individual in Europe, 60 to 70 generations ago, was the sole origin of most of the hemochromatosis seen in the world today.
The frequency of the hemochromatosis gene in Utah was placed at 5.6% (Cartwright et al., 1979). Homozygotes had a frequency of 0.3% and heterozygotes a frequency of 10.6%. A similar gene frequency was estimated for Brittany (Beaumont et al., 1979).