Prevalence of Lithuanian mutation among St. Petersburg jews with familial hypercholesterolemia

Human Mutation

Volumn 12, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 255-258

  Mandelshtam, Mikhail ^a   Chakir, Khalid ^b   Shevtsov, Sergei ^b   Golubkov, Valery ^a   Skobeleva, Natalya ^b   Lipovetsky, Boris ^c   Konstantinov, Vladimir ^a   Denisenko, Alexander ^a   Gaitskhoki, Vladimir ^a   Schwartz, Eugene ^b,d  

^a INSTITUTE OF EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE   (Russian Federation)

^b RUSSIAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (Russian Federation)

^c Brain Ctr and Inst for Human Brain   (Russian Federation)

^d PETERSBURG NUCLEAR PHYSICS INSTITUTE   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Familial hypercholesterolemia; Jewish mutation; LDLR gene; SSCP analysis

Indexed keywords

ALLELE; ARTICLE; DNA DETERMINATION; DNA SEQUENCE; ETHNIC GROUP; FAMILIAL HYPERCHOLESTEROLEMIA; GENE MUTATION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; JEW; POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECEPTOR GENE; SINGLE STRAND CONFORMATION POLYMORPHISM;

DNA MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; HETERODUPLEX ANALYSIS; HETEROZYGOTE DETECTION; HUMANS; HYPERLIPOPROTEINEMIA TYPE II; JEWS; LIPIDS; LITHUANIA; MALE; PEDIGREE; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE-STRANDED CONFORMATIONAL; RUSSIA; SEQUENCE DELETION;

EID: 7344222069     PISSN: 10597794     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1098-1004(1998)12:4<255::AID-HUMU6>3.0.CO;2-E     Document Type: Article

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