"Finnish" mutations in LDL receptor gene: a rare cause of familial hypercholesterolemia in St. Petersburg and Petrozavodsk.

Autor: Komarova TY; Institute of Experimental Medicine, North-Western Division of the Russian Academy of Medical Sciences, St. Petersburg, Russia. michail@MM13666.spb.edu., Golovina AS, Grudinina NA, Zakharova FM, Korneva VA, Lipovetskii BM, Serebrenitskaya MP, Konstantinov VO, Vasilyev VB, Mandelshtam MY
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: Bulletin of experimental biology and medicine [Bull Exp Biol Med] 2013 Jul; Vol. 155 (3), pp. 380-3.
DOI: 10.1007/s10517-013-2159-4
Abstrakt: The search for two mutations, FH-Helsinki and FH-North Karelia, in LDL receptor gene was carried out in patients with familial hypercholesterolemia from St. Petersburg (80 families) and Petrozavodsk (80 families) using allele-specific PCR and analysis of single-stranded DNA fragment conformation polymorphism (SSCP analysis) with subsequent sequencing. The FH-North Karelia mutation was found in one family in St. Petersburg and in one family in Petrozavodsk, while FH-Helsinki mutation was not detected in any of the samples. Hence, the two "Finnish" mutations together responsible for 2/3 familial hypercholesterolemia cases in Finland were extremely rare in the Russian regions neighboring Finland.
Databáze: MEDLINE