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Hereditary systemic amyloidosis associated with a new apolipoprotein AII stop codon mutation Stop78Arg.
Kidney international - 1 Jul 2003
Yazaki Masahide, Liepnieks Juris J, Barats Mark S, Cohen Arthur H, Benson Merrill D
Abstract excerpt
UNLABELLED: Hereditary systemic amyloidosis associated with a new apolipoprotein AII stop codon mutation Stop78Arg. BACKGROUND: Mutations in the gene for apolipoprotein AII (apoAII) have recently been found to cause hereditary renal amyloidosis. In each case amyloid deposition has been associated with a peptide extension at the carboxyl-terminus of apoAII, the result of mutations in the normal stop codon....
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