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Association between non-responsiveness to plant sterol intervention and polymorphisms in cholesterol metabolism genes: a case-control study.
Applied physiology, nutrition, and metabolism = Physiologie appliquee, nutrition et metabolisme - 1 Aug 2008
Rudkowska Iwona, AbuMweis Suhad S, Nicolle Catherine, Jones Peter J H
Abstract excerpt
Plant sterol (PS) consumption decreases low-density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL-C) levels; however, high variability of responsiveness of lipid levels to PS intervention has been observed. We hypothesized that common single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) in the genes for the ATP binding cassette proteins G5 (ABCG5) and G8 (ABCG8), Niemann-Pick C1-like 1 (NPC1L1), or other proteins of the cholesterol pathway,...
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