Molecular basis of congenital Lp(a) deficiency: A frequent apo(a) 'null' mutation in Caucasians

Human Molecular Genetics

Volumn 8, Issue 11, 1999, Pages 2087-2096

  Ogorelkova, Miroslava ^a   Gruber, Alexandra ^a   Utermann, Gerd ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENINE; APOLIPOPROTEIN A; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; GUANINE; LIPOPROTEIN A;

AFRICA; ALTERNATIVE RNA SPLICING; ARTICLE; CAUCASIAN; CELL STRAIN HEPG2; COMPLEX FORMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEGRADATION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HERITABILITY; HOMOZYGOTE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; INTRON; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; KRINGLE DOMAIN; LIPOPROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; LIPOPROTEIN DEFICIENCY; LYMPHOBLASTOID CELL; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MUTATION RATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; STROKE;

AFRICAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; ALLELES; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; APOLIPOPROTEINS A; BASE SEQUENCE; CARCINOMA, HEPATOCELLULAR; CLONING, MOLECULAR; ETHNIC GROUPS; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; EXONS; GENE FREQUENCY; HUMANS; INTRONS; KRINGLES; LIPOPROTEIN(A); LIVER NEOPLASMS; MACROMOLECULAR SUBSTANCES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; POINT MUTATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT, HERITABLE; RNA SPLICING; TRANSFECTION; TUMOR CELLS, CULTURED;

EID: 0032837868     PISSN: 09646906     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/hmg/8.11.2087     Document Type: Article

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