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[Identification and characterization of the first Spanish familial ligand-defective apolipoprotein B homozygote].
Medicina clinica - 3 Feb 2001
Ejarque I, Civer M, Francisco Ascaso J, Knecht E, Eugenia Armengod M, Carmen R, Tomás Real J, Francisco Chaves J, Javier Martín De Llano J
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: Familial ligand-defective apolipoprotein B 100 (FDB) is an autosomal inherited disease due to mutations on apo B 100, clinically indistinguishable from familial hypercholesterolemia (FH). We described the first Spanish homozygote for FDB. METHODS: We have screened R3500Q mutation of apo B gene (PCR-SSCP analysis) in a large family with FDB and have identified the first Spanish homozygote for FDB....
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