Article
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...
Topics
- Adolescent
- Adult
- Aged
- Apolipoprotein B-100
- Apolipoproteins B
- Base Sequence
- Child
- Child, Preschool
- Cholesterol
- DNA
- Diagnosis, Differential
- Female
