Frequency and effect of human apolipoprotein A-IV polymorphism on lipid and lipoprotein levels in an Icelandic population.

doi:10.1007/BF00196231

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Frequency and effect of human apolipoprotein A-IV polymorphism on lipid and lipoprotein levels in an Icelandic population.

Human genetics - 1 Mar 1990

Menzel H J, Sigurdsson G, Boerwinkle E, Schrangl-Will S, Dieplinger H, Utermann G

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Human apolipoprotein A-IV (apo A-IV) exhibits a genetic polymorphism with two common alleles, A-IV1 and A-IV2, in Caucasian populations. We have investigated this polymorphism in the Icelandic population. The frequencies of the two alleles are significantly different from middel European populati...

Topics

Alleles
Apolipoproteins A
Blotting, Western
Gene Frequency
Humans
Iceland
Lipids
Lipoproteins, HDL
Phenotype
Polymorphism, Genetic
Triglycerides

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