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Amyloid
The Journal of Protein Folding Disorders
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Original Article

Identification and quantitative analysis of human transthyretin variants in human serum by Fourier transform ion-cyclotron resonance mass spectrometry

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Pages 201-207 | Published online: 19 Nov 2009

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