The relative importance of common and rare genetic variants in the development of hypertriglyceridemia.

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Plasma lipid levels are a complex trait with a genetic and an environmental component. There are two models for the genetic basis of complex traits: the common-disease common-variant hypothesis, in which susceptibility is due to variants occurring at relatively high frequency but low effect size; and the common-disease rare-variant hypothesis, where disease is due to multiple rare variants each occurring at low...

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