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Familial defective apolipoprotein B-100 is clinically indistinguishable from familial hypercholesterolemia.
Archives of internal medicine - 25 Oct 1993
Defesche J C, Pricker K L, Hayden M R, van der Ende B E, Kastelein J J
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BACKGROUND: Familial defective apolipoprotein B-100 is caused by a substitution of adenine for guanine in exon 26 of the gene coding for apolipoprotein B, which results in the substitution of glutamine for arginine in the putative low-density lipoprotein-receptor binding domain of the mature protein. This amino acid substitution diminishes the binding capacity of the low-density lipoprotein particle for the...
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