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We determined TaqI-A, TaqI-B and EcoNI genotypes at the cholesteryl ester transfer protein (CETP) locus in 111 healthy volunteers and in 187 hyperlipidemic men of whom 72 had suffered a myocardial infarction. There were no significant differences in the allele distributions at these polymorphic loci either between the population sample and the hyperlipidemic subjects, or between patients with and without previous myocardial infarction. To detect the associations between the CETP polymorphisms and serum lipid and apoprotein levels, we determined the serum concentrations of total cholesterol, triglycerides, high density lipoprotein (HDL)-cholesterol, apoA-I, apoA-II and apoB in the subjects studied and correlated them to the 3 RFLPs. No significant differences were observed in the serum levels of apoproteins and lipid parameters between subjects with different genotypes in any of these polymorphic CETP loci, either in the population sample or in hyperlipidemic men. Multivariate analyses did not reveal a significant independent role for any of the 3 polymorphisms in determining serum HDL-cholesterol or apoA-I levels after adjusting for triglyceride and low density lipoprotein cholesterol concentrations. This was evident for the group of healthy volunteers and for hyperlipidemic subjects, including those who had survived a myocardial infarction. We conclude that, in Finns, the CETP RFLPs are not useful markers for the risk of coronary heart disease.
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Tenkanen, H., Koskinen, P., Kontula, K. et al. Polymorphisms of the gene encoding cholesterol ester transfer protein and serum lipoprotein levels in subjects with and without coronary heart disease. Hum Genet 87, 574–578 (1991). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00209015
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