A novel variant of transthyretin (Glu42Asp) associated with sporadic late-onset cardiac amyloidosis

Amyloid

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 285-287

  Dupuy, Olivier ^a   Blétry, Olivier ^b   Blanc, Anne Sophie ^b   Droz, Dominique ^c   Viémont, Michèle ^a   Delpech, Marc ^a   Grateau, Gilles ^d  

^a Université Paris Descartes   (France)

^b FOCH HOSPITAL   (France)

^c HÔPITAL NECKER ENFANTS MALADES   (France)

^d HÔTEL DIEU   (France)

Author keywords

Cardiomyopathy; Tramthyretin gene mutation; Transthyretin amyloidosis

Indexed keywords

ASPARTIC ACID; DNA; GLUTAMIC ACID; PREALBUMIN;

AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; AMYLOIDOSIS; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CHEMISTRY; GENETICS; HEART DISEASE; HUMAN; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; ONSET AGE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

AGE OF ONSET; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; AMYLOIDOSIS; ASPARTIC ACID; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA; GLUTAMIC ACID; HEART DISEASES; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREALBUMIN;

EID: 0032242890     PISSN: 13506129     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/13506129809007302     Document Type: Article

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