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Evaluation of an integrative diagnostic algorithm for the identification of people at risk for alpha1-antitrypsin deficiency.
American journal of clinical pathology - 1 Sept 2007
Bornhorst Joshua A, Procter Melinda, Meadows Cindy, Ashwood Edward R, Mao Rong
Abstract excerpt
An integrative diagnostic algorithm for alpha1-antitrypsin (AAT) deficiency testing in the clinical laboratory was developed and evaluated. A novel rapid LightCycler (Roche, Indianapolis, IN) molecular assay was used to detect the common S and Z deficiency allelic variants. However, use of such molecular assays for these variants also can result in the misclassification of significant numbers of "at-risk" patient...
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