[We have recently isolated and characterized the human apo A-I gene and have shown that apo A-I and apolipoprotein C-III (apo C-III) genes are physically linked and that a polymorphism (of unknown frequency in the general population) of the apo A-I gene is inherited as a mendelian trait linked to premature atherosclerosis in an affected family (not the same polymorphism as has previously been reported to be associated with hypertriglyceridaemia).]. 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