Efflux and atherosclerosis: The clinical and biochemical impact of variations in the ABCA1 gene

Arteriosclerosis, Thrombosis, and Vascular Biology

Volumn 23, Issue 8, 2003, Pages 1322-1332

  Singaraja, Roshni R ^a   Brunham, Liam R ^a   Visscher, Henk ^a   Kastelein, John J P ^b   Hayden, Michael R ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b ACADEMIC MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^c Centre for Molecular Medicine and Therapeutics   (Canada)

Author keywords

ABCA1; Atherosclerosis; Efflux; Genetics; HDL

Indexed keywords

CARRIER PROTEIN;

ABCA1 GENE; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; BIOCHEMISTRY; BLOOD PROTEIN DISORDER; CLINICAL FEATURE; DISEASE COURSE; GENE; GENE MUTATION; GENOTYPE PHENOTYPE CORRELATION; HETEROZYGOTE; HOMOZYGOTE; HUMAN; HYPOALPHALIPOPROTEINEMIA; LIPID BLOOD LEVEL; LIPID TRANSPORT; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHORT SURVEY; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; TANGIER DISEASE;

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; ATP-BINDING CASSETTE TRANSPORTERS; CHOLESTEROL, HDL; CORONARY ARTERIOSCLEROSIS; DISEASE PROGRESSION; HETEROZYGOTE; HUMANS; LIPID METABOLISM; MUTATION; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE;

EID: 0042734464     PISSN: 10795642     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/01.ATV.0000078520.89539.77     Document Type: Short Survey

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