Reply: Mutations in NPC1L1 and coronary heart disease

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 372, Issue 9, 2015, Pages 882-

  Silbernagel, Günther ^a   Baumgartner, Iris ^a   März, Winfried ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^b MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABC TRANSPORTER G5; ABC TRANSPORTER G8; LOW DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN CHOLESTEROL; PHYTOSTEROL; MEMBRANE PROTEIN;

ABCG5 GENE; ABCG8 GENE; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; EFFECT SIZE; GENE; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HUMAN; HYPERLIPIDEMIA; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; LETTER; LIPID ABSORPTION; NPC1L1 GENE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK REDUCTION; SITOSTEROLEMIA; BLOOD; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; FEMALE; GENE SILENCING; GENETICS; MALE; MUTATION;

CHOLESTEROL, LDL; CORONARY DISEASE; FEMALE; GENE SILENCING; HUMANS; MALE; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MUTATION;

EID: 84923799634     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: 15334406     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJMc1500124     Document Type: Letter

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