[The low-density lipoprotein receptor (LDLR) is directly involved in the metabolism of low-density lipoprotein (LDL) and its impairment causes accumulation of plasmatic LDL leading to atherosclerosis, a prevalent disease in patients with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE).]. Sentence from MEDLINE/PubMed, a database of the U.S. National Library of Medicine.
Gene-disease associations inferred from text-mining the literature.
DisGeNET evidence - LITERATURE