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Functional Characterization of LIPA (Lysosomal Acid Lipase) Variants Associated With Coronary Artery Disease.
Arteriosclerosis, thrombosis, and vascular biology - 1 Dec 2019
Evans Trent D, Zhang Xiangyu, Clark Reece E, Alisio Arturo, Song Eric, Zhang Hanrui, Reilly Muredach P, Stitziel Nathan O, Razani Babak
Abstract excerpt
OBJECTIVE: LIPA (lysosomal acid lipase) mediates cholesteryl ester hydrolysis, and patients with rare loss-of-function mutations develop hypercholesterolemia and severe disease. Genome-wide association studies of coronary artery disease have identified several tightly linked, common intronic risk variants in LIPA which unexpectedly associate with increased mRNA expression. However, an exonic variant (rs1051338...
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