Insights into blood lipids from rare variant discovery.

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Large-scale genome wide screens have discovered over 160 common variants associated with plasma lipids, which are risk factors often linked to heart disease. A large fraction of lipid heritability remains unexplained, and it is hypothesized that rare variants of functional consequence may account for some of the missing heritability. Finding lipid-associated variants that occur less frequently in the human...

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