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Familial amyloid polyneuropathy
1996-10-01
Abstract excerpt
Familial amyloid polyneuropathy is an hereditary amyloidosis related to several different genetic errors. It usually presents as a severe peripheral neuropathy. The protein most frequently involved in the disease is transthyretin, a serum transport protein synthesized primarily in the liver. Variable penetrance and variable clinical expression are widely described but the factors that influence such variability ar...
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- Literature Corpus work
- 8c2d68c4-0a69-553c-b25c-f10eac69907d
- DOI
- 10.1097/00019052-199610000-00007
