Mutation analysis of exon 3 of the LDL receptor gene in patients with severe hypercholesterolemia

Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine

Volumn 36, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 279-282

  Geisel, Jürgen ^a   Gielen, Jörg ^b   Oette, Kurt ^b   Herrmann, Wolfgang ^a   Wielckens, Klaus ^b  

^a SAARLAND UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

Author keywords

German population; Hypercholesterolemia; Low density lipoprotein receptor gene; Single strand conformation polymorphism

Indexed keywords

LOW DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN RECEPTOR; PRIMER DNA;

AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ARTICLE; DNA SEQUENCE; EXON; GENE MUTATION; GERMANY; HUMAN; HYPERCHOLESTEROLEMIA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECEPTOR GENE; SINGLE STRAND CONFORMATION POLYMORPHISM;

BASE SEQUENCE; DNA MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; DNA PRIMERS; EXONS; GERMANY; HUMANS; HYPERCHOLESTEROLEMIA; HYPERLIPOPROTEINEMIA TYPE II; MUTATION; POINT MUTATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE-STRANDED CONFORMATIONAL; RECEPTORS, LDL; SEQUENCE DELETION;

EID: 0031840524     PISSN: 14346621     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/CCLM.1998.047     Document Type: Article

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