Clinical heterogeneity in monogenic chylomicronaemia.

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Chylomicronaemia accompanies hypertriglyceridaemia, usually due to a polygenic predisposition in combination with secondary risk factors. Monogenic chylomicronaemia represents a small subgroup of patients with hypertriglyceridaemia. This article describes three patients and illustrates the heterogeneity in the presentation of monogenic chylomicronaemia. The first case is a man with mild hypertriglyceridaemia who...

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