Three polymorphisms associated with low hepatic lipase activity are common in African Americans

Journal of Lipid Research

Volumn 39, Issue 9, 1998, Pages 1900-1903

  Nie, Liangcai ^a   Niu, Sijing ^a   Vega, Gloria Lena ^a   Clark, Luther T ^b   Tang, Aylmer ^b   Grundy, Scott M ^a   Cohen, Jonathan C ^a  

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

^b SUNY DOWNSTATE MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

514 allele; HDL cholesterol

Indexed keywords

HIGH DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN CHOLESTEROL; LIVER TRIACYLGLYCEROL LIPASE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CAUCASIAN; CHOLESTEROL METABOLISM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME POLYMORPHISM; GENE FREQUENCY; HUMAN; MALE; NEGRO; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RACE DIFFERENCE;

ADULT; AFRICAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; ALLELES; EXONS; GENOTYPE; HAPLOTYPES; HUMANS; INTRONS; LIPASE; LIVER; MALE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POLYMORPHISM, RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

EID: 0031711104     PISSN: 00222275     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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