Normal allele: TT
CETP regulates reverse cholesterol transport, a process by which excess cholesterol is removed from peripheral tissues and returned to the liver. CETP may mediate the triglyceride-lowering and LDL and HDL remodelling effects observed with low-carbohydrate diets.
Polymorphism rs5883 is related to topics like this:
Research and publications:
12475937 Association testing by DNA pooling: an effective initial screen.
14707174 High-throughput MALDI-TOF discovery of genomic sequence polymorphisms.
16700901 Physiogenomic analysis of weight loss induced by dietary carbohydrate restriction.
18254975 Physiogenomic comparison of human fat loss in response to diets restrictive of carbohydrate or fat
21686126 An assessment of CETP sequence variation in relation to cognitive decline and dementia risk.
22135769 Gene-drug interaction in stroke.
22629316 Multi-ethnic analysis of lipid-associated loci: the NHLBI CARe project.
24393849 Genetic variants affecting alternative splicing of human cholesteryl ester transfer protein.
27104857 Functional Regression Models for Epistasis Analysis of Multiple Quantitative Traits.
27768712 c.*84G>A Mutation in CETP Is Associated with Coronary Artery Disease in South Indians.