High plasma levels of apo(a) fragments in Caucasians and African-Americans with end-stage renal disease: Implications for plasma Lp(a) assay

Clinical Genetics

Volumn 52, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 387-392

  Mooser, Vincent ^a   Marcovina, Santica M ^c   Wang, Jinping ^b   Hobbs, Helen H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c Northwest Research Laboratory   (United States)

Author keywords

African Americans; Apolipoprotein(a); Caucasians; ELISA; End stage renal disease; Hemodialysis; Lipoprotein(a); Monoclonal antibodies

Indexed keywords

APOLIPOPROTEIN A; APOLIPOPROTEIN B; CYSTEINE; GLYCOPROTEIN; LIPOPROTEIN A;

ADULT; AGED; AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CAUCASIAN; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; HUMAN; KIDNEY FAILURE; KRINGLE DOMAIN; LIPOPROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEGRO; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TANDEM REPEAT; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0031426409     PISSN: 00099163     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1399-0004.1997.tb04358.x     Document Type: Conference Paper

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