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Deletion of GPIHBP1 causing severe chylomicronemia.
Journal of inherited metabolic disease - 1 May 2012
Rios Jonathan J, Shastry Savitha, Jasso Juan, Hauser Natalie, Garg Abhimanyu, Bensadoun André, Cohen Jonathan C, Hobbs Helen H
Abstract excerpt
Lipoprotein lipase (LPL) is a hydrolase that cleaves circulating triglycerides to release fatty acids to the surrounding tissues. The enzyme is synthesized in parenchymal cells and is transported to its site of action on the capillary endothelium by glycophosphatidylinositol (GPI)-anchored high-density lipoprotein-binding protein 1 (GPIHBP1). Inactivating mutations in LPL; in its cofactor, apolipoprotein (Apo)...
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