ABCA1
Tangier disease. It was discovered that a mutation in the ABCA1 protein is responsible for causing Tangier disease by several groups in 1998. Gerd Schmitz's group in Germany and Michael Hayden's group in British Columbia were using standard genetics techniques and DNA from family pedigrees to loe the mutation. Richard Lawn's group at CV Therapeutics in Palo Alto, CA used cDNA .