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Clinical Chemistry, Vol 39, 2125-2129, Copyright © 1993 by American Association for Clinical Chemistry
G Eggertsen, R Tegelman, S Ericsson, B Angelin and L Berglund
Department of Clinical Chemistry, Karolinska Institute, Huddinge University Hospital, Sweden.
We analyzed blood samples from 407 healthy Swedish individuals, 244 men and 163 women, ages 17 to 86 years, for apolipoprotein (apo) E isoforms and serum triglycerides, low-density lipoprotein (LDL), high-density lipoprotein (HDL), and total cholesterol. Parallel genotyping by means of polymerase chain reaction (PCR)-amplified DNA was performed in 200 subjects. Identical results were obtained by genotyping and phenotyping in 95% of all subjects analyzed. The apo E allelic frequencies were 7.8% for epsilon 2, 71.9% for epsilon 3, and 20.3% for epsilon 4. Compared with other Caucasian populations, the present population had a high relative allelic frequency of epsilon 4. The epsilon 4 frequency decreased with increasing age and was significantly lower in individuals > 60 years of age (14.7%). When controlling for age and sex, there were strong correlations between total serum and LDL cholesterol and the various epsilon alleles. The epsilon 4 and epsilon 3 alleles correlated positively with serum cholesterol and the epsilon 4 allele correlated positively with LDL cholesterol. In contrast, HDL cholesterol and serum triglycerides did not show any correlation to the allele types. Thus, the results demonstrate a considerable age variation of the epsilon allele frequency among healthy Swedes and an influence of apo E alleles on serum and LDL cholesterol concentrations.
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