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Journal of Lipid Research, Vol 32, 1587-1599, Copyright © 1991 by Lipid Research, Inc.

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Characterization of apoA- and apoB-containing lipoprotein particles in a variant of familial apoA-I deficiency with planar xanthoma: the metabolic significance of LP-A-II particles

ED Bekaert, P Alaupovic, CS Knight-Gibson, MJ Laux, JM Pelachyk and RA Norum
Lipoprotein and Atherosclerosis Research Program, Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation, Oklahoma City 73104.

This study describes a variant of familial apoA-I deficiency associated with a moderate risk for premature coronary artery disease. The proband, a 25-year-old man of Philippine origin, and his 62-year-old maternal aunt had peripheral corneal opacification, xanthelasma, and planar xanthoma; the aunt had coronary artery bypass surgery at 61 years of age. Proband's parents and three brothers were asymptomatic and apparently healthy. The characteristic apolipoprotein features of affected patients were the immunochemically and chemically undetectable apoA-I, reduced levels of apoA-II, apoC-II, apoC-III, and apoD, and normal levels of apoB and apoE; except for negligible levels of high density lipoprotein (HDL)-cholesterol (2-3 mg/dl), their plasma lipid profile was normal. The apoA-I levels in all five unaffected relatives were more than one SD below the normal mean values for their age and sex; the HDL-cholesterol levels of proband's unaffected brothers were below the 10th percentile of normal control values. Patient's very low density lipoprotein (VLDL), low density lipoprotein (LDL), and HDL contained 1.4, 80.4, and 18.1%, whereas those of control subjects contained 2.7, 28.8, and 68.1% of the total apolipoprotein mass, respectively. In unaffected relatives, the levels of LP-A-I, but not LP- A-I:A-II, were significantly lower than in controls. Neither of the two patients had detectable concentrations of LP-A-I or LP-A-I:A-II. Their HDL only consisted of LP-A-II particles, the levels of which (7-13 mg/dl) were similar to those of unaffected relatives or controls. There was no difference in the lipid composition of LP-A-II between patients and their relatives. However, LP-A-II from patients contained substantial amounts of apoC-peptides and apoE (0.40-0.98 mg/mg apoA- II), whereas those from unaffected relatives were free of these minor apolipoproteins. In patients, among all four major apoB-containing lipoproteins, only the levels of LP-B and LP-B:C were slightly higher than those in controls. Results of this study suggest a genetic cause for this variant of apoA-I deficiency characterized most probably by autosomal recessive inheritance. It appears that patients are likely to be homozygous for a gene present in single dose in the parents and brothers of the affected proband.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 400 WORDS)
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