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Assessment of French patients with LPL deficiency for French Canadian mutations.
Journal of medical genetics - 1 Aug 1997
Foubert L, De Gennes J L, Lagarde J P, Ehrenborg E, Raisonnier A, Girardet J P, Hayden M R, Benlian P
Abstract excerpt
Mutations in the LPL gene show high levels of allelic heterogeneity between and within different populations. Complete LPL deficiency has a very high prevalence in French Canadians, where only three missense mutations account for > 97% of cases, most consistent with founder mutations introduced early in Quebec by French immigrants. In order to determine whether these mutations were present in France, 12 unrelated...
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