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Common variants of Cholesteryl ester transfer protein gene and their association with lipid parameters in healthy volunteers of Tamilian population.
Clinica chimica acta; international journal of clinical chemistry - 1 Jan 2007
Padmaja N, Ravindra Kumar M, Soya S S, Adithan C
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BACKGROUND: Cholesteryl ester transfer protein (CETP) is involved in a key pathway of reverse cholesterol transport implicated in atherosclerosis and coronary heart disease. CETP gene is known to have many single nucleotide polymorphisms which have been associated with CETP activity and plasma high density lipoprotein cholesterol (HDL-C) concentrations. No data on the prevalence of these polymorphisms and their...
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