Lipoprotein disorders

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Overview
Causes
Classification Hyperlipoproteinemia Hypolipoproteinemia
Treatment

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Overview

Lipoproteins, which are aggregates of proteins and lipids, allow the circulation of hydrophobic lipids in the body. Disorders of lipids and lipoproteins metabolism have important health consequences, mainly on the cardiovascular system. Lipoprotein disorders can be described as abnormalities in the level of the lipids, which include cholesterol and triglycerides, or as abnormalities in the levels of lipoproteins that include LDL, HDL, VLDL and chylomicrons.

Lipoprotein disorders have been initially classified in 1967 into different phenotypes by Fredrickson according to the type of lipoproteins that accumulate. However; Fredrickson's classification of hyperlipoproteinemias took into consideration the elevation in chylomicrons, LDL, VLDL but did not include abnormalities in HDL levels. Other classifications have been suggested, one of which is the National Cholesterol Education Program (NCEP) classification of lipoprotein disorders. NCEP classifies lipid disorders according to laboratory cut off points for the levels of total cholesterol, LDL-C and HDL.

Lipoprotein disorders can be classified according to different criteria. First of all, lipoprotein disorders can be classified as primary disorders resulting from genetic mutations and secondary to other diseases. Another way of classifying lipoprotein disorders is as hypolipidemia (or hypolipoproteinemia) and hyperlipidemia (hyperlipoproteinemia) where the lipoprotein levels are decreased and increased respectively. However, the latter classification is not precise and creates some ambiguity, because some people can be labeled as having hyperlipidemia but have simultaneously high level of some lipoproteins and low levels of other lipoproteins depending on the underlying pathophysiology. Hence, a better term to describe the constellation of abnormal lipid profiles is "disorders of lipoproteins", or dyslipoproteinemia or dyslipidemia.

Genetics

Shown below is a table summarizing the different genetic lipoprotein disorders along with the the gene and main lipoprotein involved in each disease. For detailed information about each disease, click on its name.

Genetic Lipoprotein Disorder	Gene Involved	Main Lipoprotein Involved
Familial hypercholesterolemia	LDL-R	LDL
Familial defective apo B100	Apo B	LDL
Autosomal dominant hypercholesterolemia	PCSK9	LDL
Autosomal recessive hypercholesterolemia	ARH	LDL
Abetalipoproteinemia	MTP	LDL
Hypobetalipoproteinemia	Apo B	LDL
Familial sitosterolemia	ABCG5 - ABCG8	LDL
Familial lipoprotein(a) hyperlipoproteinemia	Apo(a)	LDL
Dysbetalipoproteinemia type III	Apo E
Hepatic lipase deficiency	HL
Lipoprotein lipase deficiency	LPL	Chylomicron
Apo C-II deficiency	Apo C-II	Chylomicron
Apo A-V deficiency	Apo A-V deficiency	Chylomicron
Familial hypertriglyceridemia	Multiple genes
Familial combined hyperlipidemia	Multiple genes
Familial hypoalphalipoproteinemia
GPIHBP1 deficiency	GPIHBP1	Chylomicron
Apo A-I deficiency	Apo A-I	HDL
Tangier disease	ABCA1	HDL
Familial LCAT deficiency	LCAT	HDL
CETP deficiency	CETP	HDL
Type A Niemann-Pick disease	SMPD1	HDL
Type B Niemann-Pick disease	SMPD1	HDL
Type C Niemann-Pick disease	NPC1	HDL
PCSK9 deficiency	PCSK9	HDL
Chylomicron retention disease	SAR1B	Multiple