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Amyloid
The Journal of Protein Folding Disorders
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Original Article

Prevalence of the amyloidogenic transthyretin (TTR) V122I allele in 14 333 African–Americans

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Pages 171-174 | Received 09 Jan 2015, Accepted 04 Apr 2015, Published online: 30 Jun 2015

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