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- Title
Clinical features and genetic analysis of three patients with severe hypertriglyceridaemia.
- Authors
Hooper, Amanda J; Kurtkoti, Jagadeesh; Hamilton-Craig, Ian; Burnett, John R
- Abstract
Hypertriglyceridaemia is a common biochemical abnormality that can be due to primary causes or, more commonly, secondary causes. Moderate hypertriglyceridaemia is a risk factor for cardiovascular disease and can develop into severe hypertriglyceridaemia which is a risk factor for acute pancreatitis. Familial chylomicronaemia is a rare autosomal recessive disorder, usually diagnosed in childhood and is characterized by marked hypertriglyceridaemia and biochemical deficiency of lipoprotein lipase (LPL), apolipoprotein (apo) C-II, homozygous (or compound heterozygous) gene mutations in LPL or more rarely, APOC2. Recently, loss-of-function mutations in the APOA5 gene have been reported in patients with severe hypertriglyceridaemia in whom LPL or APOC2 mutations were not found. We describe the clinical features and genetic analysis of three patients with severe hypertriglyceridaemia including novel mutations LPL c.464T>C (p.Leu155Pro) and APOA5 c.823C>T (p.Gln275*).
- Subjects
HYPERTRIGLYCERIDEMIA; HYPERLIPIDEMIA; CARDIOVASCULAR diseases; PANCREATITIS; APOLIPOPROTEINS; PATIENTS; DISEASE risk factors
- Publication
Annals of Clinical Biochemistry, 2014, Vol 51, Issue 4, p485
- ISSN
0004-5632
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1177/0004563214525767