Phytosterolemia on the island of Kosrae
Screening of 932 adults on the Pacific island of Kosrae for plasma plant sterol levels disclosed three subjects, two of them asymptomatic, with phytosterolemia. Sequencing the ATP binding cassette subfamily G member 8 (ABCG8) gene revealed a novel exon 2 mutation that causes a change in codon 24 fro...
Main Authors: | Ephraim Sehayek, Hannah J. Yu, Klaus von Bergmann, Dieter Lutjohann, Markus Stoffel, Elizabeth M. Duncan, Laura Garcia-Naveda, Jacqueline Salit, Maude L. Blundell, Jeffrey M. Friedman, Jan L. Breslow |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Elsevier
2004-09-01
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Series: | Journal of Lipid Research |
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Online Access: | http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0022227520312761 |
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