Marina Cuchel, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Daniel J Rader, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Published online: January 2006
DOI: 10.1038/npg.els.0005751
Familial hypercholesterolemia is a monogenic disease characterized by high levels of plasma cholesterol and premature cardiovascular disease. In its homozygous form, conventional pharmacological therapy is not effective and gene therapy could become a viable treatment.
Keywords: familial hypercholesterolemia; gene therapy; LDL receptor; VLDL receptor; adenoviral vector; adeno-associated vector; cardiovascular disorders; LDL cholesterol
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| book Goldstein JL, Hobbs HH and Brown MS (2001) "Familial hypercholesterolemia". In: Scriver CR, Beaudet AL, Sly WS and Valle D (eds) The Metabolic and Molecular Bases of Inherited Disease, vol. 2, pp. 2863–2913. New York: McGraw-Hill | |
| Kay MA, Glorioso JC and Naldini L (2001) Viral vectors for gene therapy: the art of turning infectious agent into vehicles of therapeutics. Nature Medicine 7: 33–40. | |
| Mulligan RC (1993) The basic science of gene therapy. Science 260: 926–931. | |
| Web Links | |
| ePath Low density lipoprotein receptor (familial hypercholesterolemia) (LDLR); Locus ID: 3949. LocusLink: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/LocusLink/LocRpt.cgi?l=3949 | |
| ePath Very low density lipoprotein receptor (VLDLR); Locus ID: 7436. LocusLink: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/LocusLink/LocRpt.cgi?l=7436 | |
| ePath Low density lipoprotein receptor (familial hypercholesterolemia) (LDLR); MIM number: 606945. OMIM: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/htbin-post/Omim/dispmim?606945 | |
| ePath Very low density lipoprotein receptor (VLDLR); MIM number: 192977. OMIM: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/htbin-post/Omim/dispmim?192977 | |
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