Autosomal Dominant Hypercholesterolemia: Needs for Early Diagnosis and Cascade Screening in the Tunisian Population

Autosomal dominant hypercholesterolemia (ADH) is characterized by an isolated elevation of plasmatic lowdensity lipoprotein (LDL), which predisposes to premature coronary artery disease (CAD) and early death. ADH is largely due to mutations in the low-density lipoprotein receptor gene (LDLR), the ap...

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Veröffentlicht in:Current genomics 2013-03, Vol.14 (1), p.25-32
Hauptverfasser: Jelassi, Awatef, Najah, Mohamed, Slimani, Afef, Jguirim, Imen, Slimane, Mohamed Naceur, Varret, Mathilde
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