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LpX with distinctive lipid compositions are formed in patients afflicted with either familial LCAT deficiency (FLD) or biliary cholestasis. LpX is difficult to detect by standard lipid stains due to the absence of a neutral lipid core and because it is unstable upon storage, particularly when frozen. We have recently reported that free cholesterol-specific filipin staining after agarose gel electrophoresis sensitively detects LpX in fresh human plasma. Herein, we describe an even more simplified qualitative method to detect LpX in both fresh and frozen\u2013thawed human FLD or cholestatic plasma. Fluorescent cholesterol complexed to fatty-acid-free BSA was used to label LpX and was added together with trehalose in order to cryopreserve plasma LpX. The fluorescent cholesterol bound to LpX was observed with high sensitivity after separation from other lipoproteins by agarose gel electrophoresis. 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