In a 1995 study of Australian hemochromatosis patients and their families, Jazwinska and colleagues defined the chromosome 6p hemochromatosis ancestral haplotype (AH) as D6S248(5)-D6S265(1)-HLA-A*03-HLA-F*02-D6S105(8) [12]. The gene discussed is HLA-F; the disease is hemochromatosis type 1.