Article
Genetics of type III hyperlipoproteinemia.
Genetic epidemiology - 1 Jan 1997
Feussner G, Piesch S, Dobmeyer J, Fischer C
Abstract excerpt
One hundred forty-seven relatives of 43 patients with "classical" type III hyperlipoproteinemia (HLP) having the apolipoprotein (apo) E2/2 phenotype were studied to determine the occurrence of hyperlipidemia and the presence of further possible genes for lipoprotein disorders in these families. I...
Topics
- Adult
- Aged
- Apolipoproteins E
- Female
- Gene Frequency
- Heterozygote
- Homozygote
- Humans
- Hyperlipidemias
- Hyperlipoproteinemia Type III
- Isoelectric Focusing
- Lipoprotein Lipase
- Lipoproteins
- Male
- Middle Aged
- Mutation
- Pedigree
- Statistics, Nonparametric