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Amyloid
The Journal of Protein Folding Disorders
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Original Article

An on-line assay for clinical detection of amyloidogenic transthyretin variants directly from serum

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Pages 190-197 | Accepted 16 Jul 2003, Published online: 06 Jul 2009

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