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ORGANISM(S): Homo sapiens
SUBMITTER: Christopher Plaisier
PROVIDER: E-GEOD-13506 | biostudies-arrayexpress |
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-arrayexpress
Arteriosclerosis, thrombosis, and vascular biology 20081106 1
<h4>Objective</h4>There is increasing physiological evidence in rodents connecting the neuropeptide galanin to triglyceride (TG) levels. We hypothesized that variation in the galanin preproprotein (GAL) gene may contribute to hypertriglyceridemia (HTG) in humans.<h4>Methods and results</h4>We investigated GAL as a TG candidate gene by genotyping 4 tagSNPs in Dutch, Finnish, and Mexican familial combined hyperlipidemia (FCHL) families as well as in white combined hyperlipidemia cases/controls (n= ...[more]