Article
Apolipoprotein E polymorphism and coronary artery disease.
Arteriosclerosis (Dallas, Tex.) - 1 Jan 2000
Menzel H J, Kladetzky R G, Assmann G
Abstract excerpt
Lipid status and apolipoprotein E phenotypes were tested in 1000 patients who underwent coronary angiography. The same number of factory employees was chosen as a control group. We distinguished between six different apolipoprotein E phenotypes and determined their frequencies in all groups. For the three homozygous phenotypes E3/3, E4/4, and E2/2, the percentage distribution in the group of factory employees was...
Topics
- Adult
- Apolipoproteins
- Apolipoproteins E
- Cholesterol
- Cholesterol, HDL
- Coronary Disease
- Electrophoresis, Polyacrylamide Gel
- Female
- Genotype
- Humans
- Isoelectric Focusing
- Lipoproteins, HDL
