Article
Association of hypercholesterolemia and apolipoprotein E4 in school children.
Clinical genetics - 1 Oct 1990
Yanagi H, Shimakura Y, Yamanouchi Y, Watanabe Y, Tsuchiya S, Hamaguchi H
Abstract excerpt
To investigate the association of apolipoprotein (APO) E4 and hypercholesterolemia in children, we studied the APOE phenotypes of 51 school-age children with hypercholesterolemia and of 51 age, sex and obesity index-matched controls with normocholesterolemia by two-dimensional gel electrophoresis...
Topics
- Adolescent
- Apolipoprotein E4
- Apolipoproteins E
- Child
- Female
- Gene Frequency
- Genetic Testing
- Humans
- Hyperlipoproteinemia Type II
- Japan
- Male
- Phenotype
- Polymorphism, Genetic
