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Amyloid
The Journal of Protein Folding Disorders
Volume 1, 1994 - Issue 3
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Original Article

A new test for detection ot the His 58 variant transthyretin allele in hereditary amyloidosis; creation of diagnostic restriction endonuclease recognition sites by PCR based mutagenesis

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Pages 154-159 | Received 12 Nov 1993, Accepted 05 Apr 1994, Published online: 06 Jul 2009

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