Sentences with phrase «called apolipoprotein»

Apo E genes influence heart disease risk providing instruction for making a protein called apolipoprotein E.

Lp (a) is a particular subtype of LDL cholesterol that is bound to a protein called apolipoprotein (a)(4).

The investigators also found that eating one or more fish meals a week was linked to less Alzheimer's damage in the brain, but only among people with a gene variant called apolipoprotein E (APOE).

People with one copy of the variant, called apolipoprotein E-e4 (APOE e4), have a 29 % lifetime risk of developing Alzheimer's disease, while people who don't have it have a 9 % risk.

The interest intensified several years ago with the surprising discovery that an increased risk of Alzheimer's disease was linked to a natural genetic variant of a key fat - transporter molecule called apolipoprotein E, or apoE.

The gene encodes a protein called apolipoprotein E.

Humans carry a gene for a protein in cells called apolipoprotein E, which helps clear amyloid - beta from the brain by binding to it and breaking it down.

In 1993, Poirier and his Montreal - based team co-discovered an important genetic risk factor involved in the most common form of the disease: a defective gene, called Apolipoprotein E type 4 (ApoE4), that prevents the normal transport of cholesterol and phospholipids to the brain.

For decades, scientists have known that people with two copies of a gene called apolipoprotein E4 (ApoE4) are much more likely to have Alzheimer's disease at age 65 than the rest of the population.

HDL with a small proinflammatory protein called apolipoprotein C - III (apoC - III) on its surface may nearly double the risk of heart disease in healthy men and women, according to Frank Sacks, professor of cardiovascular disease prevention at the Harvard School of Public Health and senior author on a paper in the April Journal of the American Heart Association.

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Apolipoprotein E comes in three versions, or variants, called ApoE2, ApoE3 and ApoE4.

In a small study published online in the journal JAMA Neurology, June 2013, researchers found that dietary saturated fat cut the body's levels of the chemical apolipoprotein E, also called ApoE, which helps «chaperone» amyloid beta proteins out of the brain.