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Sex-specific effects of the glutamine/histidine polymorphism in apo A-IV on HDL metabolism.
Arteriosclerosis and thrombosis : a journal of vascular biology - 1 Jul 1994
von Eckardstein A, Funke H, Chirazi A, Chen-Haudenschild C, Schulte H, Schönfeld R, Köhler E, Schwarz S, Steinmetz A, Assmann G
Abstract excerpt
In Caucasians, a histidine for glutamine substitution (Gln-->His) at residue 360 in apolipoprotein (apo) A-IV leads to an electrophoretically detectable polymorphism whose contribution to lipid metabolism regulation is controversial. In this study of 426 male and 188 female coronary heart disease patients, we analyzed the impact of this polymorphism on lipid metabolism, particularly high-density lipoprotein...
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