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A catalog of the pathogenic mutations of LDL receptor gene in Japanese familial hypercholesterolemia.
Journal of clinical lipidology - 1 Jan 2000
Tada Hayato, Hori Mika, Nomura Akihiro, Hosomichi Kazuyoshi, Nohara Atsushi, Kawashiri Masa-Aki, Harada-Shiba Mariko
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: Little data exist on the pathogenic mutations of LDL receptor in Japanese familial hypercholesterolemia (FH). OBJECTIVE: We aimed to catalog the pathogenic mutations of LDL receptor gene in the 2 major Japanese FH-care centers (Kanazawa University and National Cerebral and Cardiovascular Center Research Institute), where genetic testing of FH has been performed centrally on requests from institutes...
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