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A new variant of apolipoprotein E (apo E Maebashi) in lipoprotein glomerulopathy.
Pediatric nephrology (Berlin, Germany) - 1 Feb 2000
Ogawa T, Maruyama K, Hattori H, Arai H, Kondoh I, Egashira T, Watanabe T, Kobayashi Y, Morikawa A
Abstract excerpt
We have previously reported an 8-year-old girl with lipoprotein glomerulopathy. Assessment of serum apolipoprotein E (apo E) in this patient showed a discrepancy between phenotype and genotype, suggesting that she may have a variant of apo E. The present report concerns our analysis of DNA sequences of the apo E gene in the patient: nine base pairs were found to be deleted from exon 4. This mutation would appear...
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