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Hereditary cardiac amyloidosis associated with the transthyretin Ile122 mutation in a white man.
Heart (British Cardiac Society) - 1 Sept 1999
Gillmore J D, Booth D R, Pepys M B, Hawkins P N
Abstract excerpt
An 83 year old white man with atrial fibrillation was admitted to hospital after a cerebral infarct. Echocardiography was characteristic of cardiac amyloid deposition and subsequent tests confirmed amyloidosis of transthyretin (TTR) type, in association with the Ile122 mutation of the TTR gene; this has only been reported previously in African Americans in whom it occurs with an allele frequency of 2%. Haplotype...
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