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Apolipoprotein E genotype and cardiovascular disease in the Framingham Heart Study.
Atherosclerosis - 15 Feb 2001
Lahoz C, Schaefer E J, Cupples L A, Wilson P W, Levy D, Osgood D, Parpos S, Pedro-Botet J, Daly J A, Ordovas J M
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BACKGROUND: Apolipoprotein (apo) E is a constituent of lipoproteins with considerable variation due to cysteine-arginine exchanges. The apo E4 (Arg112-Cys) polymorphism has been associated with dementia and hypercholesterolemia. We investigated the relation of APOE genotype to cardiovascular dise...
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