Laboratory assessment of transthyretin amyloidosis

Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine

Volumn 40, Issue 12, 2002, Pages 1262-1265

  Benson, Merrill D ^a   Yazaki, Masahide ^a   Magy, Nadine ^a  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Amyloidosis; DNA assays; Inherited disease; Protein analysis; Transthyretin

Indexed keywords

DNA; NUCLEOTIDE; PREALBUMIN; PROTEIN; RIBONUCLEASE; VALINE;

AMYLOIDOSIS; AUTOSOMAL DOMINANT DISORDER; DNA DETERMINATION; ENZYME ASSAY; ETHNIC GROUP; GENE MUTATION; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HUMAN; ISOELECTRIC FOCUSING; LABORATORY DIAGNOSIS; LABORATORY TEST; MASS SPECTROMETRY; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN DETERMINATION; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; RESTRICTION MAPPING; REVIEW; SINGLE STRAND CONFORMATION POLYMORPHISM;

AMYLOIDOSIS, FAMILIAL; DNA; HUMANS; MUTATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POLYMORPHISM, RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE-STRANDED CONFORMATIONAL; PREALBUMIN;

EID: 0036915054     PISSN: 14346621     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/CCLM.2002.218     Document Type: Review

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