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Familial defective apolipoprotein B100: clinical characteristics of 54 cases.
Atherosclerosis - 1 Feb 1992
Rauh G, Keller C, Kormann B, Spengel F, Schuster H, Wolfram G, Zöllner N
Abstract excerpt
Familial defective apolipoprotein B100 (FDB) is a recently identified dominantly inherited genetic disorder, which is characterized by a decreased affinity of low density lipoprotein (LDL) for the LDL receptor. FDB is caused by a G to A mutation at nucleotide 10 708 in exon 26 of the apo B gene creating a substitution of glutamine for arginine in the codon for amino acid 3500. To determine the consequences of the...
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