Abstract Background/Aims: Lp (a) levels have long been recognized as a potential risk factor
for coronary heart disease that is almost completely under genetic control. Much of the …

Lipoprotein (a)(Lp (a)) is an important causal cardiovascular risk factor, with serum Lp (a)
levels predicting atherosclerotic heart disease and genetic determinants of Lp (a) levels …

Background An increased level of Lp (a) lipoprotein has been identified as a risk factor for
coronary artery disease that is highly heritable. The genetic determinants of the Lp (a) …

Background—Functional copy number variation in the apolipoprotein (a) gene (LPA)
underlies a variable number of protein kringle domains repeated in tandem in the lipoprotein …

In the middle of the 1990s the interest in Lp (a) vanished after a few badly performed studies
almost erased Lp (a) from the map of biological targets. However, since roughly 10 years the …

Abstract High lipoprotein (a)[Lp (a)] concentrations are one of the most important genetically
determined risk factors for cardiovascular disease. Lp (a) concentrations are an enigmatic …

The serum concentration of lipoprotein Lp (a) is known to be highly heritable and associated
with cardiovascular risk. A genome-wide variance component linkage analysis was …

Plasma lipoprotein (a)[L p (a)] is a quantitative genetic trait with a very broad and skewed
distribution, which is largely controlled by genetic variants at the LPA locus on chromosome …

Objective—The aim of the present study was to determine whether lipoprotein (a)[Lp (a)],
considered a causal risk factor for cardiovascular disease, primarily promotes thrombosis or …

Background and aims High lipoprotein (a)[Lp (a)] concentrations are associated with
increased coronary artery disease (CAD) risk. Lp (a) is regulated mainly genetically by the …