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Genetics of Hypertriglyceridemia.
Frontiers in endocrinology - 1 Jan 2020
Dron Jacqueline S, Hegele Robert A
Abstract excerpt
Hypertriglyceridemia, a commonly encountered phenotype in cardiovascular and metabolic clinics, is surprisingly complex. A range of genetic variants, from single-nucleotide variants to large-scale copy number variants, can lead to either the severe or mild-to-moderate forms of the disease. At the genetic level, severely elevated triglyceride levels resulting from familial chylomicronemia syndrome (FCS) are caused...
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