A genetic model for control of hypertriglyceridemia and apolipoprotein B levels in the Johns Hopkins colony of St. Thomas Hospital rabbits.

doi:10.1093/genetics/132.4.1095

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A genetic model for control of hypertriglyceridemia and apolipoprotein B levels in the Johns Hopkins colony of St. Thomas Hospital rabbits.

Genetics - 1 Dec 1992

Beaty T H, Prenger V L, Virgil D G, Lewis B, Kwiterovich P O, Bachorik P S

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The St. Thomas Hospital (STH) rabbit has been previously shown to have a Mendelian form of hypertriglyceridemia, accompanied by accelerated atherosclerosis, and these animals may serve as a useful model for human dyslipoproteinemia syndromes. Here we describe the establishment of a new colony of...

Topics

Animals
Apolipoproteins B
Cholesterol
Genes
Genotype
Hyperlipoproteinemia Type IV
Pedigree
Phenotype
Rabbits
Triglycerides

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