Phenotypic expression of familial hypercholesterolaemia in central and southern Tunisia.

doi:10.1016/0021-9150(93)90186-x

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Phenotypic expression of familial hypercholesterolaemia in central and southern Tunisia.

Atherosclerosis - 1 Dec 1993

Slimane M N, Pousse H, Maatoug F, Hammami M, Ben Farhat M H

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We studied 14 families with familial hypercholesterolaemia (FH) from Central and Southern Tunisia. Twenty-six living homozygotes were identified in these areas of whom 24 homozygotes and 27 of their obligate heterozygote parents are the subject of this report. Ten of the 14 families are unrelated...

Topics

Adolescent
Adult
Apolipoproteins
Child
Child, Preschool
Female
Humans
Hyperlipoproteinemia Type II
Lipids
Lipoproteins
Male
Phenotype
Tunisia

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