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Alpha 1-antitrypsin alleles in patients with pulmonary emphysema, detected by DNA amplification (PCR) and oligonucleotide probes.
The European respiratory journal - 1 May 1992
Bruun-Petersen K, Bruun-Petersen G, Dahl R, Larsen B, Kølvraa S, Koch J, Bolund L, Gregersen N
Abstract excerpt
Alpha 1-antitrypsin (AAT) deficiency is a serious predisposing factor for the development of pulmonary emphysema. Twelve representative Danish families were studied. AAT typing was performed as a comparative study between the traditional protein typing by isoelectrical focusing and the deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) technique of enzymatic amplification and subsequent typing with radioactively labelled...
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