APOA5 and triglyceride metabolism, lesson from human APOA5 deficiency

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PURPOSE OF REVIEW: In this review we compare the phenotype and lipoprotein abnormalities of some patients who were found to carry mutations in the APOA5 gene predicted to result in apolipoprotein A-V deficiency. RECENT FINDINGS: The sequencing of the APOA5 gene in patients with primary hypertriglyceridemia, in whom mutations of the LPL and APOC2 genes had been excluded, led to the identification of four families...

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