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标题：Global molecular analysis and APOE mutations in a cohort of autosomal dominant hypercholesterolemia patients in France
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作者：René Wintjens ; Dominique Bozon ; Khaldia Belabbas 等
期刊名称：JLR Papers In Press
印刷版ISSN：0022-2275
电子版ISSN：1539-7262
出版年度：2016
卷号：57
期号：3
页码：482-491
DOI：10.1194/jlr.P055699
语种：English
出版社：American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
摘要：Autosomal dominant hypercholesterolemia (ADH) is a human disorder characterized phenotypically by isolated high-cholesterol levels. Mutations in the low density lipoprotein receptor ( LDLR ), APOB , and proprotein convertase subtilisin/kexin type 9 ( PCSK9 ) genes are well known to be associated with the disease. To characterize the genetic background associated with ADH in France, the three ADH-associated genes were sequenced in a cohort of 120 children and 109 adult patients. Fifty-one percent of the cohort had a possible deleterious variant in LDLR , 3.1% in APOB , and 1.7% in PCSK9 . We identified 18 new variants in LDLR and 2 in PCSK9 . Three LDLR variants, including two newly identified, were studied by minigene reporter assay confirming the predicted effects on splicing. Additionally, as recently an in-frame deletion in the APOE gene was found to be linked to ADH, the sequencing of this latter gene was performed in patients without a deleterious variant in the three former genes. An APOE variant was identified in three patients with isolated severe hypercholesterolemia giving a frequency of 1.3% in the cohort. Therefore, even though LDLR mutations are the major cause of ADH with a large mutation spectrum, APOE variants were found to be significantly associated with the disease. Furthermore, using structural analysis and modeling, the identified APOE sequence changes were predicted to impact protein function.
关键词：familial hypercholesterolemia ; apolipoproteins ; apolipoprotein E ; cholesterol ; low density lipoprotein ; phenotype/genotype correlation