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Apolipoprotein E genotype as a most significant predictor of lipid response at lipid-lowering therapy: mechanistic and clinical studies.
Biomedicine & pharmacotherapy = Biomedecine & pharmacotherapie - 1 Dec 2011
Dergunov A D
Abstract excerpt
APOE alleles and apolipoprotein E isoforms control plasma cholesterol level on population level. Among three ɛ2, ɛ3, ɛ4 alleles, ɛ4 allele is associated with the increase in cholesterol level, risk of atherosclerosis and Alzheimer disease, while ɛ2 allele is associated with the decrease in cholesterol level and risk of atherosclerosis. The increase in plasma triglyceride is an independent risk factor of...
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