| familial a. |
a concentration of cases of a disease in families; the occurrence of more cases of a given disorder in close relatives of a person with the disorder than in control families.
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| familial acholuric j. |
hereditary spherocytosis.
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| familial alobar h. |
a form in which the chromosomes are normal but otherwise resembling that due to trisomy 13 (see holoprosencephaly).
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| familial amyloid p. |
autosomal dominant amyloid polyneuropathy occurring in hereditary amyloidosis; major subtypes are Portuguese type familial amyloid p., Indiana type familial amyloid p., and Finnish type familial amyloid p.
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| familial apolipoprotein C-II (apo C-II) d. |
an autosomal recessive disorder due to lack of apo C-II, a necessary cofactor for lipoprotein lipase. It results in familial hyperchylomicronemia that is usually milder and of later onset than that caused by a defect in the enzyme itself. See also table at hyperlipoproteinemia.
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