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Absence of fatty liver in familial hypobetalipoproteinemia linked to chromosome 3p21.
Metabolism: clinical and experimental - 1 May 2005
Yue Pin, Tanoli Tariq, Wilhelm Olayinka, Patterson Bruce, Yablonskiy Dmitriy, Schonfeld Gustav
Abstract excerpt
Our aim was to ascertain whether fatty liver may be present in the genetic form of familial hypobetalipoproteinemia (FHBL) linked to a susceptibility locus on chromosome 3p21. Three genetic forms of FHBL exist: (a) FHBL caused by truncation-specifying mutations of apolipoprotein B (apoB), (b) FHBL linked to chr3p21, and (c) FHBL not linked either to APOB or to chr3p21. Fatty liver is common in apoB-defective...
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