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Next-generation sequencing to confirm clinical familial hypercholesterolemia.
European journal of preventive cardiology - 23 Jul 2021
Reeskamp Laurens F, Tromp Tycho R, Defesche Joep C, Grefhorst Aldo, Stroes Erik S G, Hovingh G Kees, Zuurbier Linda
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: Familial hypercholesterolemia is characterised by high low-density lipoprotein-cholesterol levels and is caused by a pathogenic variant in LDLR, APOB or PCSK9. We investigated which proportion of suspected familial hypercholesterolemia patients was genetically confirmed, and whether this has changed over the past 20 years in The Netherlands. METHODS: Targeted next-generation sequencing of 27 genes...
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