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MVarallo: a new M(Like) alpha 1-antitrypsin-deficient allele.
Diagnostic molecular pathology : the American journal of surgical pathology, part B - 1 Dec 2003
Coni Pierpaolo, Pili Elisabetta, Convertino Giuseppe, Pichiri Giuseppina, Balestrino Antonella, Delmastro Monica, Donner Claudio F, Faa Gavino, Balbi Bruno
Abstract excerpt
A 73-year-old never-smoker woman with chronic bronchitis, increasing dyspnoea, and airflow limitation with a FEV1 of 49% of predicted value had low serum level of alpha-1-antitrypsin (69 mg/dL, normal range 150-350). Isoelectric focusing showed an Mlike pattern. Direct sequencing showed, in the second exon, a particular DNA alteration localized between codon 41 and codon 51: a region of 30 base pairs (bp) was...
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