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Familial carpal tunnel syndrome due to amyloidogenic transthyretin His 114 variant.
Neurology - 1 Feb 1994
Murakami T, Tachibana S, Endo Y, Kawai R, Hara M, Tanase S, Ando M
Abstract excerpt
We studied two patients from a Japanese family with carpal tunnel syndrome (CTS). The biopsy samples obtained during CTS surgical release revealed deposits of amyloid that stained with antihuman transthyretin (TTR) antiserum. Single-strand conformation polymorphism analysis and sequence analysis of polymerase chain reaction (PCR)-amplified exons of the proband's TTR gene revealed a point mutation resulting in a...
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