The Lebanese mutation as an important cause of familial hypercholesterolemia in Brazil
Familial hypercholesterolemia (FH) is a common autosomal disorder that affects about one in 500 individuals in most Western populations and is caused by a defect in the low-density-lipoprotein receptor (LDLr) gene. In this report we determined the molecular basis of FH in 59 patients from 31 unrelat...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Associação Brasileira de Divulgação Científica
1999-06-01
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Series: | Brazilian Journal of Medical and Biological Research |
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Online Access: | http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0100-879X1999000600009 |