'SZ like' alpha 1-antitrypsin phenotypes in PI ZZ children with liver disease.

doi:10.1111/j.1469-1809.1994.tb00721.x

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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

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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/...

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Adolescent
Adult
Aged
Child
Child, Preschool
Female
Humans
Infant
Infant, Newborn
Isoelectric Focusing
Jaundice
Liver Diseases
Lung Diseases
Male
Middle Aged
Phenotype
United Kingdom
alpha 1-Antitrypsin

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