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Amyloid
The Journal of Protein Folding Disorders
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In antisynthetase syndrome, amyloidosis is rare and might not be related to the disease

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Pages 214-216 | Received 16 Jul 2012, Accepted 01 Sep 2012, Published online: 30 Oct 2012

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