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Spectrum of low density lipoprotein receptor mutations in Czech hypercholesterolemic patients.
Human mutation - 1 Sept 2001
Kuhrová V, Francová H, Zapletalová P, Freiberger T, Fajkusová L, Hrabincová E, Slováková R, Kozák L
Abstract excerpt
The aim of our study was to define mutations causing familial hypercholesterolemia (FH) phenotype in Czech hypercholesterolemic individuals. A combination of heteroduplex analysis, SSCP, DGGE, DNA sequencing and PCR/restriction analysis was used for this purpose. Molecular searching in the promoter region and coding sequence of the low density lipoprotein receptor (LDLR) gene in 130 patients from 68 unrelated...
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