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Apolipoprotein A-IV phenotypes were determined by reprobing immunoblots initially typed for the apolipoprotein E polymorphism on a representative sample of Mexican-Americans from South Texas. Typings on 331 individuals gave frequency estimates of 0.928, 0.066, 0.003, and 0.003 for alleles 1, 2, 3, and 4, respectively. To evaluate the effects of this polymorphic variability on lipid-related measures, mean levels between phenotypes were tested for equality following adjustment for age, sex, and body mass index. Analyses of levels of cholesterol, triglycerides, total high density lipoprotein, and its subfractions, low density lipoprotein, alpha and beta lipoproteins and apolipoproteins A-I, A-II, B, C-II, C-III, and E demonstrate that the A-IV genetic variability contributes minimally to normal variation of these quantitative factors in the population. Examination of the rare types, however, indicates the possibility of large metabolic effects whose follow-up may be useful for elucidating the metabolic roles of apolipoprotein A-IV.
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Hanis, C.L., Douglas, T.C. & Hewett-Emmett, D. Apolipoprotein A-IV protein polymorphism: frequency and effects on lipids, lipoproteins, and apolipoproteins among Mexican-Americans in Starr County, Texas. Hum Genet 86, 323–325 (1991). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00202422
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