How to tackle genetic loci predisposing to atherosclerosis?

Current Opinion in Lipidology

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 95-100

  Pajukanta, Päivi ^a   Peltonen, Leena ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^b NATIONAL PUBLIC HEALTH INSTITUTE   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LIPID; LIPOPROTEIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; CODON; GENE ISOLATION; GENE LOCUS; GENE MAPPING; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC LINKAGE; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; GENOTYPE; HEREDITY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; LIPID METABOLISM; LIPOPROTEIN METABOLISM; MARKER GENE; MEDICAL GENETICS; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

ANIMALS; ARTERIOSCLEROSIS; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; CROSSES, GENETIC; HUMANS; LINKAGE (GENETICS);

EID: 0031007469     PISSN: 09579672     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00041433-199704000-00007     Document Type: Review

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