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Candidate-gene studies of the atherogenic lipoprotein phenotype: a sib-pair linkage analysis of DZ women twins.
American journal of human genetics - 1 Feb 1998
Austin M A, Talmud P J, Luong L A, Haddad L, Day I N, Newman B, Edwards K L, Krauss R M, Humphries S E
Abstract excerpt
There is a growing body of evidence supporting the roles of small, dense LDL and plasma triglyceride (TG), both features of the atherogenic lipoprotein phenotype, as risk factors for coronary heart disease. Although family studies and twin studies have demonstrated genetic influences on these risk factors, the specific genes involved remain to be determined definitively. The purpose of this study was to...
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