One mutation, two distinct disease variants: unravelling the impact of transthyretin amyloid fibril composition.

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Although hereditary transthyretin (h-ATTR) amyloidosis is a monogenetic disease, a large variation in its phenotype has been observed. The common hypothesis of amyloid fibril formation involves dissociation of the transthyretin (TTR) tetramer into monomers that after misfolding reassemble into amyloid fibrils. This notion is partly challenged by the finding of two distinct types of amyloid fibrils. One of these,...

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