title: Genetic studies of human apolipoproteins. XI. The effect of the apolipoprotein C-II polymorphism on lipoprotein levels in Nigerian blacks.
abstract: The human apolipoprotein C-II locus exhibits genetically determined structural polymorphism in United States and African blacks. In the present study, we have investigated the effect of the apoC-II polymorphism on quantitative serum levels of total cholesterol, total high density lipoprotein (HDL) cholesterol, cholesterol in high density lipoprotein subfractions, low density lipoprotein (LDL) cholesterol, and triglycerides (TG) in a sample of 368 unrelated Nigerian blacks. The frequencies of the APOC-II*1 and APOC-II*2 alleles in the samples were 0.947 and 0.053, respectively. In males, the effect of the APOC-II*2 allele was to lower the total serum cholesterol and LDL-cholesterol levels by 13.28 mg/dl and 10.55 mg/dl, respectively, relative to the common allele, APOC-II*1. In females, the effect was to lower total plasma cholesterol by 4.49 mg/dl and LDL-cholesterol by 3.21 mg/dl. The effect of apoC-II on quantitative lipoprotein levels is shown to be independent of variation at the linked apoE locus, but the products of the two loci interact in determining overall quantitative phenotypes.
authors.affiliation: Human Genetics Division, University of Pittsburgh, PA 15261.
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Sepehrnia
authors.forename: M I
authors.initials: MI
authors.lastname: Kamboh
authors.forename: L L
authors.initials: LL
authors.lastname: Adams-Campbell
authors.forename: C H
authors.initials: CH
authors.lastname: Bunker
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Nwankwo
authors.forename: P P
authors.initials: PP
authors.lastname: Majumder
authors.forename: R E
authors.initials: RE
authors.lastname: Ferrell
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000483:Alleles; D053304:Apolipoprotein C-II; D001056:Apolipoproteins C / Q000235:genetics*; D044383:Black People / Q000235:genetics; D005260:Female; D005787:Gene Frequency; D006801:Humans; D006949:Hyperlipidemias / Q000235:genetics; D008074:Lipoproteins / Q000097:blood*; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009549:Nigeria; D010641:Phenotype; D011110:Polymorphism, Genetic; D014481:United States; D001741:Black or African American
chemical_list: D053304:Apolipoprotein C-II; D001056:Apolipoproteins C; D008074:Lipoproteins