Levels of apolipoprotein B, the protein component of low-density lipoproteins, correlate with the risk of coronary heart disease. We examined whether genetic variation in apolipoprotein B is associated with myocardial infarction by studying apolipoprotein B-gene restriction-fragment-length polymorphisms in 84 patients with myocardial infarction and an equal number of matched controls. Southern blot analysis with apolipoprotein B-gene probes, performed after DNA was digested with the endonucleases XbaI and EcoRI, revealed alleles that we designated as X1, X2, and X3 and as R1 and R2, respectively. Similar studies with the endonuclease MspI revealed alleles of many different sizes (the difference was due to an insertion-deletion polymorphism), which we grouped as larger and smaller alleles and designated as ID1 and ID2, respectively. The frequencies of the X1, R1, and ID1 alleles were all significantly higher (P less than 0.01) in the cases than in the controls. None of the alleles, however, was significantly associated with variation in levels of low-density lipoprotein cholesterol or apolipoprotein B, and the functional importance of these alleles is therefore uncertain. Nonetheless, in addition to quantitative variation in apolipoprotein B levels in plasma, genetic variation at the apolipoprotein B locus may be a new and independent risk factor for myocardial infarction.
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