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Heritability of plasma noncholesterol sterols and relationship to DNA sequence polymorphism in ABCG5 and ABCG8.
Journal of lipid research - 1 Mar 2002
Berge Knut E, von Bergmann Klaus, Lutjohann Dieter, Guerra Rudy, Grundy Scott M, Hobbs Helen H, Cohen Jonathan C
Abstract excerpt
The plasma concentrations of cholesterol precursor sterols and plant sterols vary over a 5- to 10-fold range among normolipidemic individuals, and provide indices of the relative rates of cholesterol synthesis and fractional absorption. In the present study, we examined the relative contributions...
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