[Determinants of hypercholesterolemia in Geneva: should the focus be on genes or environment?].

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Do genetic (G), or environmental (E), factors primarily determine blood lipid concentrations in the Geneva population? On-going research on the causes of hypercholesterolemia in populations based on data collected by the Bus Santé Survey is summarized. About 2/3 of the HDL-cholesterol variance could not be explained by the most important 5 of 10 environmental factors and 9 of 275 common genetic variants...

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