Transthyretin V122I in African Americans With Congestive Heart Failure

Journal of the American College of Cardiology

Volumn 47, Issue 8, 2006, Pages 1724-1725

  Buxbaum, Joel ^a   Jacobson, Daniel R ^a   Tagoe, Clement ^a   Alexander, Alice ^a   Kitzman, Dalane W ^a   Greenberg, Barry ^a   Thaneemit Chen, Surai ^a   Lavori, Philip ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PREALBUMIN; VALINE;

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; AGED; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE MUTATION; HEART AMYLOIDOSIS; HETEROZYGOTE; HOMOZYGOSITY; HUMAN; LETTER; MALE; NEWBORN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POPULATION GENETICS; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; WILD TYPE;

AFRICAN AMERICANS; GENE FREQUENCY; HEART FAILURE, CONGESTIVE; HETEROZYGOTE; HUMANS; ISOLEUCINE; MUTATION; PREALBUMIN; VALINE;

EID: 33646072452     PISSN: 07351097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jacc.2006.01.042     Document Type: Letter

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