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Lipoprotein lipase mutations, plasma lipids and lipoproteins, and risk of ischemic heart disease. A meta-analysis.
Circulation - 8 Jun 1999
Wittrup H H, Tybjaerg-Hansen A, Nordestgaard B G
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BACKGROUND: We assessed in meta-analyses the effect of the Gly188Glu, Asp9Asn, Asn291Ser, and Ser447Ter substitutions in lipoprotein lipase in the heterozygous state on lipid metabolism and risk of ischemic heart disease (same order used below). METHODS AND RESULTS: In 29 separate studies, 20 903 white subjects were screened for >/=1 of these substitutions; each meta-analysis included only some of these...
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