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Nucleotide sequence and association analysis of pig apolipoprotein-B and LDL-receptor genes.
Animal biotechnology - 1 Jan 2009
Pena R N, Cánovas A, Varona L, Díaz I, Gallardo D, Ramírez O, Noguera J L, Quintanilla R
Abstract excerpt
Three genes are the major determinants of heritable hypercholesterolemia diseases in humans: APOB, LDLR and LDLRAP1, which encode for proteins that physically interact to promote cholesterol uptake in the cell. We have carried out association analyses of these variants with serum cholesterol and triglycerides concentrations in a half-sib Duroc pig population. Given the structure of the population (six paternal...
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