Clinical picture and outcome of transthyretin-related familial amyloid polyneuropathy (FAP) in Japanese patients.

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Familial amyloid polyneuropathy (FAP) was once considered to be a disease peculiar to endemic areas, but it is now recognized that FAP kindreds exist in worldwide places. The amyloid precursor of FAP is a variant form of transthyretin (TTR) with one amino acid substitution, which is ascribed to a mutation of TTR gene. Corresponding to the variety of the clinical phenotypes of FAP, more than 80 mutations have been...

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