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A new locus for autosomal recessive hypercholesterolemia maps to human chromosome 15q25-q26.
American journal of human genetics - 1 Feb 2000
Ciccarese M, Pacifico A, Tonolo G, Pintus P, Nikoshkov A, Zuliani G, Fellin R, Luthman H, Maioli M
Abstract excerpt
High serum cholesterol is an established risk factor for cardiovascular disease and is the prime target for therapeutic intervention in large groups of patients. The development of modern treatments for this major risk factor was propelled by the early realization that forms of severe hypercholesterolemia could be caused by dominantly inherited defects in the LDL receptor or in the APOB gene. Further...
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