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.
HFE, the gene for classic hemochromatosis, was discovered by a team of scientists in California 1996. Two major mutations of HFE attributable to iron loading are C282Y and H63D. Numerous prevalence studies support that the C282Y mutation of HFE is common among whites.