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Genetic Determinants of the Familial Hypercholesterolaemia Phenotype.
Annals of human genetics - 1 Sept 2025
Humphries Steve Eric, Futema Marta
Abstract excerpt
Individuals with familial hypercholesterolaemia (FH) have severely elevated plasma concentrations of low-density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL-C) from birth and as a consequence have an elevated morbidity and mortality due to the development of coronary heart disease (CHD). Monogenic FH can be caused by carrying a single copy of a pathogenic variant in any of four genes (LDLR/APOB/PCSK9/APOE), which are all...
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