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'SZ like' alpha 1-antitrypsin phenotypes in PI ZZ children with liver disease.
Annals of human genetics - 1 Jan 1994
Whitehouse D B, Lovegrove J U, Mieli-Vergani G, Mowat A P, Hopkinson D A
Abstract excerpt
Using high resolution isoelectric focusing, alpha 1-antitrypsin phenotypes were studied in 106 individuals of the PI ZZ genotype including 71 with liver disease, 22 with chest disease and 13 healthy subjects. The resulting Z patterns were found to be highly variable. In the majority of cases (89/106) the maximum staining intensity was either in the most basic isoform or shared equally between two basic isoforms...
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