Haplotype analysis of newly diagnosed Portuguese and Brazilian families with fibrinogen amyloidosis caused by the FGA p.Glu545Val variant

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Isabel Tavares, M arcia E. Oliveira, Nuno Maia, Luciana Moreira, Pedro Castro Lacerda , Josefina Santos, Ros ario Santos, Paulo Pinho Costa and Lu ısa Lobato Department of Nephrology, Centro Hospitalar de São João, Porto, Portugal; Group of Research and Development in Nephrology and Infectious Diseases, Institute of Biomedical Engineering–I3S, University of Porto, Porto, Portugal; Unit of Molecular Genetics, Centre of Medical Genetics Dr. Jacinto Magalhães, Centro Hospitalar do Porto, Porto, Portugal; Unit for Multidisciplinary Research in Biomedicine (UMIB), Instituto de Ciências Biomédicas Abel Salazar, University of Porto, Porto, Portugal; Department of Human Genetics, National Health Institute Dr. Ricardo Jorge, Porto, Portugal; Department of Nephrology, Hospital de Santo António, Centro Hospitalar do Porto, Porto, Portugal; Department of Biological Sciences, Faculty of Pharmacy, Laboratory of Biochemistry, UCIBIO/REQUIMTE, University of Porto, Porto, Portugal;