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Transthyretin Ala97Ser in Chinese-Taiwanese patients with familial amyloid polyneuropathy: genetic studies and phenotype expression.
Journal of the neurological sciences - 15 Apr 2008
Liu Yo-Tsen, Lee Yi-Chung, Yang Chih-Chao, Chen Mai-Ling, Lin Kon-Ping
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: Transthyretin (TTR) variants of familial amyloid neuropathies (FAP) form a heterogenous group of autosomal dominantly inherited diseases. TTR gene analysis in several nationalities (Japanese, Portuguese, French, and British) has shown many distinguishing characteristics in the genotype-phenotype correlation. In Chinese, there are only a few reports of private TTR gene mutations belonging to single...
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