Normal allele: GG
Val30Met transthyretin gene breakage is associated with motor-dominant sensorimotor polyneuropathy and unusual pathological changes of the calf nerve.
Polymorphism rs28933979 is related to topics like this:
Research and publications:
9843084 Familial amyloid polyneuropathy related to transthyretin mutation Val30 to Leu in a Japanese family.
11385707 Transthyretin mutations in hyperthyroxinemia and amyloid diseases.
11940682 Familial transthyretin-type amyloid polyneuropathy in Japan: clinical and genetic heterogeneity.
14640030 Tabulation of human transthyretin (TTR) variants, 2003.
15123043 The hereditary amyloidoses.
15185492 Amyloidogenic and anti-amyloidogenic properties of recombinant transthyretin variants.
15249622 Pathology of early- vs late-onset TTR Met30 familial amyloid polyneuropathy.
16194874 Cardiomyopathy in Swedish patients with the Gly53Glu and His88Arg transthyretin variants.
16194875 A Swedish family with the rare Phe33Leu transthyretin mutation.
17698792 Diagnostic pitfalls in sporadic transthyretin familial amyloid polyneuropathy (TTR-FAP).
28635949 Non-coding variants contribute to the clinical heterogeneity of TTR amyloidosis.