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We interrogated this region for genetic variations and found a correlation between sitosterolemic strains and a missense mutation in Abcg5 .
The K695T missense allele was described before [ 10].
The translation for each full-length L1 sequence was analyzed for the presence of nonsense mutations, and for missense mutations that inhibit retrotransposition activity by destroying the catalytic sites of the endonuclease or reverse transcriptase or any other critical residues on which retrotransposition depends (see Materials and methods for a complete list) [ 12, 14, 46].
Our previous study used stable transfected cell lines derived from the same SV40-transformed BS cell line used here, except that the normal and missense alleles of BLM were expressed from a constitutive promoter [ 10].
Another formal possibility not excluded is that the Gly583Cys missense mutation may have no significance in the accumulation of phytosterols in WKY, SHR and SHRSP, and that the alteration in the 3' UTR or even the intronic changes reported above may be the causative 'mutations'.