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Linkage of the cholesterol 7alpha-hydroxylase gene and low-density lipoprotein cholesterol conditional on apolipoprotein E association: the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute Family Heart Study.
Chinese medical journal - 5 Mar 2005
Lin Jing-Ping, Myers Richard H, Almasy Laura, Coon Hilary H, Arnett Donna K, Hong Yuling, Hunt Steven C
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BACKGROUND: Genetic factors account for approximately 50% of the individual variation in plasma low-density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL-C) concentrations in the general population. Several candidate genes have been proposed but their relative contributions to the variance in LDL-C are not known, except for apolipoprotein E (apoE). We report here an investigation of the relationship between LDL-C and cholesterol...
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