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Influence of the apolipoprotein E polymorphism on plasma lipoproteins in a Mexican population.
Human biology - 1 Dec 2001
Gamboa R, Vargas-Alarcón G, Medina-Urrutia A, Cardoso-Saldaña G, Hernández-Pacheco G, Zamora-González J, Posadas-Romero C
Abstract excerpt
The influence of apolipoprotein E (APOE) genotypes on plasma lipid levels was determined in 278 Mexican individuals. The most frequent genotype was E3/3 (80.5%) followed by E3/4 (12.5%), E2/3 (5.0%), E2/4 (1.4%), and E4/4 (0.3%). Our data are similar to those previously described for Mexican-American and American Indian populations, which show the highest frequency worldwide of the APOE*3 and the E3/3 genotype....
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