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Alpha-1 antitrypsin deficiency is not a rare disease but a disease that is rarely diagnosed.
Environmental health perspectives - 1 Dec 2003
de Serres Frederick J
Abstract excerpt
Articles in the literature on alpha-1 antitrypsin (AAT) deficiency have been interpreted as indicating that AAT deficiency is a rare disease that affects mainly Caucasians (whites) from northern Europe. In a recent publication on the worldwide racial and ethnic distribution of AAT deficiency, new data were presented demonstrating that it is also found in various populations of African blacks; Arabs and Jews in...
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