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The Journal of Protein Folding Disorders
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Letter to the Editor

Prevalence of mutant ATTR cardiac amyloidosis in elderly African Americans with heart failure

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Pages 253-255 | Received 04 May 2017, Accepted 09 Oct 2017, Published online: 20 Oct 2017

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