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Familial hypercholesterolemia: A single-nucleotide variant (SNV) in mosaic at the low density lipoprotein receptor (LDLR).
Atherosclerosis - 1 Oct 2020
Rodríguez-Nóvoa Sonia, Rodríguez-Jiménez Carmen, Alonso Concepción, Rodriguez-Laguna Lara, Gordo Gema, Martinez-Glez Victor, García Polo Iluminada
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BACKGROUND AND AIMS: Familial hypercholesterolemia is most frequently caused by genetic variants in the LDLR gene. Most of LDLR pathogenic variants are missense, followed by splicing and deletion/insertions variants. Mosaicism is a genetic condition in which an individual shows more than one clone of cells with different genotypes. The objective of this article was the molecular characterization of a patient with...
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