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Missing Regulation Between Genetic Association and Transcriptional Abundance for Hypercholesterolemia Genes.
Genes - 15 Jan 2025
Hakim Aaron, Connally Noah J, Schnitzler Gavin R, Cho Michael H, Jiang Z Gordon, Sunyaev Shamil R, Gupta Rajat M
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Background: Low-density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL-C) is a well-established risk factor for cardiovascular disease, and it plays a causal role in the development of atherosclerosis. Genome-wide association studies (GWASs) have successfully identified hundreds of genetic variants associated with LDL-C. Most of these risk loci fall in non-coding regions of the genome, and it is unclear how these non-coding...
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