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JOURNAL OF LIPID RESEARCH
Volume 44, Issue 8, Pages 1508-1514Publisher
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DOI: 10.1194/jlr.M200479-JLR200
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lipid; lipoprotein; metabolism; abdominal obesity
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Individuals with hepatic lipase (HL) deficiency are often characterized by elevated levels of triglycerides (TGs) and cholesterol. The aim of the present study was to characterize the molecular defect leading to severe HL deficiency in a Quebec-based kindred. In the proband and two of her brothers, the very low to undetectable HL activity resulted from compound heterozygosity for two rare HL gene mutations, a previously unknown missense mutation in exon 5 designated A174T and the previously reported T383M mutation in exon 8 of the HL gene. The mutation at codon 174 resulted in the substitution of alanine for threonine, a polar amino acid, in a highly conserved nonpolar region of the protein involved in the catalytic activity of the enzyme. The severe HL deficiency among the three related compound heterozygotes was associated with a marked TG enrichment of LDL and HDL particles. The two men with severe HL deficiency also presented with abdominal obesity, which appeared to amplify the impact of HL deficiency on plasma TG-rich lipoprotein levels. jlr Our results demonstrated that HL deficiency in this Quebec kindred is associated with an abnormal lipoprotein-lipid profile, which may vary considerably in the presence of secondary factors such as abdominal obesity.
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