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SUBMITTER: Al-Allaf FA
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4785512 | biostudies-literature | 2014
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Al-Allaf Faisal A FA Athar Mohammad M Abduljaleel Zainularifeen Z Bouazzaoui Abdellatif A Taher Mohiuddin M MM Own Rakan R Al-Allaf Ahmad F AF AbuMansour Iman I Azhar Zohor Z Ba-Hammam Faisal A FA Abalkhail Hala H Alashwal Abdullah A
Human genome variation 20141120
Familial hypercholesterolemia (FH) is an autosomal dominant disease predominantly caused by a mutation in the low-density lipoprotein receptor (LDLR) gene. Here, we describe two severely affected FH patients who were resistant to statin therapy and were managed on an apheresis program. We identified a novel duplication variant c.1332dup, p.(D445*) at exon 9 and a known silent variant c.1413A>G, p.(=), rs5930, NM_001195798.1 at exon 10 of the LDLR gene in both patients. ...[more]