KUHROVÁ, Viera, Hana FRANCOVÁ, Petra ZAPLETALOVÁ, Tomáš FREIBERGER, Lenka FAJKUSOVÁ, Eva HRABINCOVÁ, Romana SLOVÁČKOVÁ a Libor KOZÁK. Spectrum of low density lipoprotein receptor mutations in Czech hyperchlosterolemic patients. Human Mutation. 2002, roč. 19, č. 1, 5 s. ISSN 1059-7794. |
Další formáty:
BibTeX
LaTeX
RIS
@article{486995, author = {Kuhrová, Viera and Francová, Hana and Zapletalová, Petra and Freiberger, Tomáš and Fajkusová, Lenka and Hrabincová, Eva and Slováčková, Romana and Kozák, Libor}, article_number = {1}, keywords = {familial hypercholesterolemia; FH; LDL receptor; LDLR; Czechoslovakian}, language = {eng}, issn = {1059-7794}, journal = {Human Mutation}, title = {Spectrum of low density lipoprotein receptor mutations in Czech hyperchlosterolemic patients.}, volume = {19}, year = {2002} }
TY - JOUR ID - 486995 AU - Kuhrová, Viera - Francová, Hana - Zapletalová, Petra - Freiberger, Tomáš - Fajkusová, Lenka - Hrabincová, Eva - Slováčková, Romana - Kozák, Libor PY - 2002 TI - Spectrum of low density lipoprotein receptor mutations in Czech hyperchlosterolemic patients. JF - Human Mutation VL - 19 IS - 1 SN - 10597794 KW - familial hypercholesterolemia KW - FH KW - LDL receptor KW - LDLR KW - Czechoslovakian N2 - The aim of our study was to define mutations causing familial hypercholesterolemia (FH) phenotype in Czech hypercholesterolemic individuals. A combination of heteroduplex analysis, SSCP, DGGE, DNA sequencing and PCR/restriction analysis was used for this purpose. Molecular searching in the promoter region and coding sequence of the low density lipoprotein receptor (LDLR) gene in 130 patients from 68 unrelated families resulted in the identification of 37 sequence variations. Thirty of them are most likely disease causing mutations. Nineteen mutations were novel (two nonsense, five missense, six nucleotide(s) insertions and six nucleotide(s) deletions). Their pathological effect can be predicted on the basis of their position with respect to previously reported mutations with an estimated reduction of the receptor activity and/or premature termination of translation. These results expand our knowledge of mutations responsible for FH. Seven nucleotide variations were characterized as silent polymorphisms. ER -
KUHROVÁ, Viera, Hana FRANCOVÁ, Petra ZAPLETALOVÁ, Tomáš FREIBERGER, Lenka FAJKUSOVÁ, Eva HRABINCOVÁ, Romana SLOVÁČKOVÁ a Libor KOZÁK. Spectrum of low density lipoprotein receptor mutations in Czech hyperchlosterolemic patients. \textit{Human Mutation}. 2002, roč.~19, č.~1, 5 s. ISSN~1059-7794.
|