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Compound heterozygous familial hypercholesterolemia in a Chinese boy with a de novo and transmitted low-density lipoprotein receptor mutation.
Journal of clinical lipidology - 1 Jan 2000
Ma Yizhe, Gong Yingyun, Garg Abhimanyu, Zhou Hongwen
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: Homozygous familial hypercholesterolemia is characterized by extremely elevated serum low-density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL-C) levels and increased risk of cardiovascular complications due to biallelic mutations in LDL receptor (LDLR). OBJECTIVE: We present a 10-year-old Chinese homozygous familial hypercholesterolemia boy with biallelic LDLR mutations including an extremely rare de novo mutation....
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