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Impact of a common mutation of the LDL receptor gene, in French-Canadian patients with familial hypercholesterolemia, on means, variances and correlations among traits of lipid metabolism

Impact of a common mutation of the LDL receptor gene, in French-Canadian patients with familial... Structural and functional studies of the gene coding for the low density lipoprotein receptor in patients with familial hypercholesterolemia have uncovered over 180 mutant alleles of the gene. Although the classical familial hypercholesterolemia phenotype is well known, the range of phenotypic variability in lipid traits associated with particular mutations in familial hypercholesterolemia has not been extensively documented. We investigated the phenotypic distributions of plasma markers of lipid metabolism from a large sample of unrelated individuals who are heterozygous for a single mutation, a > 10 kb deletion in the low density lipoprotein receptor gene, and compared these distributions with those from a sample of healthy controls. Patients were pair-matched for sex and age with healthy individuals selected from a previously studied French-Canadian population from the same region. We examined the level and variation of seven lipid traits, the correlations between the traits, and the amount of overlap of the sample distributions for each trait. The low density lipoprotein receptor defect was found to affect the levels and variability of traits, and correlations between traits. There was some overlap of the distributions of lipid traits including that for low density lipoprotein cholesterol, which is a cardinal feature of familial hypercholesterolemia. The low density lipoprotein receptor gene has a sex-specific pleiotropic effect and should be considered as a variability gene as well as a level gene. The extensive dynamic changes observed in the relationships between lipid traits testify to the biological complexity of genome type-environment interactions. http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Clinical Genetics Wiley

Impact of a common mutation of the LDL receptor gene, in French-Canadian patients with familial hypercholesterolemia, on means, variances and correlations among traits of lipid metabolism

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Wiley
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1995 Blackwell Munksgaard
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0009-9163
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1399-0004
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10.1111/j.1399-0004.1995.tb03925.x
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Abstract

Structural and functional studies of the gene coding for the low density lipoprotein receptor in patients with familial hypercholesterolemia have uncovered over 180 mutant alleles of the gene. Although the classical familial hypercholesterolemia phenotype is well known, the range of phenotypic variability in lipid traits associated with particular mutations in familial hypercholesterolemia has not been extensively documented. We investigated the phenotypic distributions of plasma markers of lipid metabolism from a large sample of unrelated individuals who are heterozygous for a single mutation, a > 10 kb deletion in the low density lipoprotein receptor gene, and compared these distributions with those from a sample of healthy controls. Patients were pair-matched for sex and age with healthy individuals selected from a previously studied French-Canadian population from the same region. We examined the level and variation of seven lipid traits, the correlations between the traits, and the amount of overlap of the sample distributions for each trait. The low density lipoprotein receptor defect was found to affect the levels and variability of traits, and correlations between traits. There was some overlap of the distributions of lipid traits including that for low density lipoprotein cholesterol, which is a cardinal feature of familial hypercholesterolemia. The low density lipoprotein receptor gene has a sex-specific pleiotropic effect and should be considered as a variability gene as well as a level gene. The extensive dynamic changes observed in the relationships between lipid traits testify to the biological complexity of genome type-environment interactions.

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Clinical Genetics – Wiley

Published: Feb 1, 1995

Keywords: biological complexity; FH; LDL-R gene; lipid traits; phenotypic expression

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