Clinical variability in type I familial amyloid polyneuropathy (Val30Met): Comparison between late- and early-onset cases in Portugal

Muscle and Nerve

Volumn 35, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 116-118

  Conceicão, Isabel ^a   De Carvalho, Mamede ^a  

^a HOSPITAL DE SANTA MARIA   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Autonomic dysfunction; Familial amyloidotic polyneuropathy; Nerve conduction; Pain; Phenotypic variability

Indexed keywords

AMYLOID; METHIONINE; VALINE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUTONOMIC DYSFUNCTION; DISEASE SEVERITY; ELDERLY CARE; FAMILIAL AMYLOID POLYNEUROPATHY; FAMILY HISTORY; FEMALE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEUROPATHIC PAIN; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; ONSET AGE; PORTUGAL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX DIFFERENCE;

ADULT; AGE OF ONSET; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; AMYLOID NEUROPATHIES, FAMILIAL; AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASES; FEMALE; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; GEOGRAPHY; HUMANS; INHERITANCE PATTERNS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; METHIONINE; MIDDLE AGED; MUTATION; NEURALGIA; PERIPHERAL NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASES; PORTUGAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEX DISTRIBUTION; VALINE;

EID: 33845991494     PISSN: 0148639X     EISSN: 10974598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mus.20644     Document Type: Article

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