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Disruption of autosomal recessive hypercholesterolemia gene shows different phenotype in vitro and in vivo.
Circulation research - 29 Oct 2004
Harada-Shiba Mariko, Takagi Atsuko, Marutsuka Kousuke, Moriguchi Sayaka, Yagyu Hiroaki, Ishibashi Shun, Asada Yujiro, Yokoyama Shinji
Abstract excerpt
We previously characterized the patients with autosomal recessive hypercholesterolemia (ARH) as having severe hypercholesterolemia and retarded plasma low-density lipoprotein (LDL) clearance despite normal LDL receptor (LDLR) function in their cultured fibroblasts, and we identified a mutation in the ARH locus in these patients. ARH protein is an adaptor protein of the LDL and reportedly modulates its...
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