Effect of microsomal triglyceride transfer protein gene variants (-493G > T, Q95H and H297Q) on plasma lipid levels in healthy middle-aged UK men.

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Microsomal triglyceride transfer protein (MTP) plays a central role in the synthesis of lipoproteins by shuttling lipids between phospholipid membranes to apoB. We have examined the effect of three MTP gene variants, -493G > T, Q95H and H297Q, in 2831 healthy UK middle-aged men. The rare allele frequencies were: 0.25 (95% CI 0.24-0.26) for -493T, 0.054 (95% CI 0.05-0.06) for 95H and 0.32 (95% CI 0.31-0.33) for...

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