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Failure of cosegregation between a rare STAP1 missense variant and hypercholesterolemia.
Journal of clinical lipidology - 1 Jan 2000
Mohebi Reza, Chen Qinzhong, Hegele Robert A, Rosenson Robert S
Abstract excerpt
Autosomal dominant familial hypercholesterolemia (FH) is characterized by elevated low-density lipoprotein cholesterol levels and an increased risk for atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease. Although rare pathogenic variants in genes encoding the low-density lipoprotein receptor, apolipoprotein B, proprotein convertase subtilisin/kexin 9 are found in more than 80% of molecularly defined patients with FH, a few...
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