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Two novel mutations of the LDL receptor gene associated with familial hypercholesterolemia in a Chinese family.
Chinese medical journal - 5 Oct 2007
Xie Li, Gong Qi-hua, Xie Zhi-guo, Liang Zong-min, Hu Zheng-mao, Xia Kun, Xia Jia-hui, Yang Yi-feng
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BACKGROUND: Familial hypercholesterolemia (FH) is a type of dominant autosomal disease that causes high levels of plasma low-density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL-C). In the past years, molecular data related to FH were limited in China. Now, to gain more information about FH, we analyzed one proband with a severe FH phenotype as well as his relatives. METHODS: After the entire coding sequence and the intron-exon...
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