Familial combined hyperlipidaemia: how can genetic disorders be common, complex and comprehensible?

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FCHL (familial combined hyperlipidaemia) is characterized by multiple phenotypes that are shaped by genes, the environment and time. A longitudinal study by Brouwers and co-workers, which appears in this issue of Clinical Science, points to the central role of the liver in defining the FCHL phenotypes and demonstrates how they vary over time in relation to energy excess. On the basis of their work and that of...

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