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Is apolipoprotein(a) a susceptibility gene for type I diabetes mellitus and related to long-term survival?
Diabetologia - 1 Aug 1999
Kronenberg F, Auinger M, Trenkwalder E, Irsigler K, Utermann G, Dieplinger H
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AIMS/HYPOTHESIS: High lipoprotein(a) [Lp(a)] plasma concentrations are a genetically determined risk factor for atherosclerotic complications. In healthy subjects Lp(a) concentrations are mostly controlled by the apolipoprotein(a) [apo(a)] gene locus which determines a size polymorphism with more than 30 alleles. Subjects with low molecular weight apo(a) phenotypes on average have higher Lp(a) concentrations than...
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