Heterozygous familial hypercholesterolemia (HeFH) is a genetic disorder a person can inherit from a parent. It can cause a person to develop dangerously high cholesterol levels. HeFH affects how a ...

Homozygous deficiency of alpha 1-atitrypsin is known to predispose to pulmonary emphysema. Measurement of the trypsin inhibitory capacity (TIC) of serum specimens from 28 relatives of a homozygous ...