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Identification and Characterization of Variants in Intron 6 of the LPL Gene Locus among a Sample of the Kuwaiti Population.
Genes - 9 Apr 2022
Al-Shammari Reem T, Al-Serri Ahmad E, Barhoush Sahar A, Al-Bustan Suzanne A
Abstract excerpt
Lipoprotein lipase (LPL) is responsible for the hydrolysis of lipoproteins; hence defective LPL is associated with metabolic disorders. Here, we identify certain intronic insertions and deletions (InDels) and single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) in intron 6 of the LPL gene and investigate their associations with different phenotypic characteristics in a cohort of the general Kuwaiti population. Two specific...
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