Facilitating the laboratory diagnosis of α1-antitrypsin deficiency

American Journal of Clinical Pathology

Volumn 139, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 184-191

  Greene, Dina N ^a,c   Elliott Jelf, M C ^b   Straseski, Joely A ^a,b   Grenache, David G ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b ARUP INSTITUTE FOR CLINICAL AND EXPERIMENTAL PATHOLOGY   (United States)

^c KAISER PERMANENTE MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

A1 Antitrypsin deficiency; A1A; AAT; Compendium; Electrophoresis; Isoelectric focusing; Library; Phenotype

Indexed keywords

ALPHA 1 ANTITRYPSIN;

ALPHA 1 ANTITRYPSIN DEFICIENCY; ARTICLE; BLOOD ANALYSIS; BLOOD SAMPLING; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROPHORESIS; ENZYME STABILITY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; ISOELECTRIC FOCUSING; LABORATORY DIAGNOSIS; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; THERMOSTABILITY; BLOOD; DRIED BLOOD SPOT TESTING; GENETIC SCREENING; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; METHODOLOGY;

ALPHA 1-ANTITRYPSIN; ALPHA 1-ANTITRYPSIN DEFICIENCY; DRIED BLOOD SPOT TESTING; GENETIC TESTING; GENETIC VARIATION; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; ISOELECTRIC FOCUSING;

MLCS; MLOWN;

EID: 84875078140     PISSN: 00029173     EISSN: 19437722     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1309/AJCP6XBK8ULZXWFP     Document Type: Article

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