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Apolipoprotein E genotypes predict attendance rates at lipid clinic.
Atherosclerosis - 1 Dec 2000
Frikke-Schmidt R, Wittrup H H, Tybjaerg-Hansen A, Meinertz H, Schnohr P, Nordestgaard B G
Abstract excerpt
Except for the rare epsilon22 genotype it remains largely unsettled whether apolipoprotein E genotype influences an individual's referral to lipid clinics. To test this hypothesis, we compared genotype distributions among 156 hypercholesterolemic and 83 hypertriglyceridemic patients attending a lipid clinic with that among 9241 individuals sampled from the Danish general population. The relative genotype...
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