Scanning the genomes of more than 100,000 people from all over the world, scientists report the largest set of genes discovered underlying high cholesterol and high triglycerides – the major risk factors for coronary heart disease, the nation’s number one killer. Taken together, the gene variants explain between a quarter and a third of the inherited portions of cholesterol and triglyceride measured in the blood. The research, representing scientists from 17 countries, appears in two papers in the Aug. 5 issue of Nature.
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Članci u časopisu Nature:
http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v466/n7307/edsumm/e100805-01.html
http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v466/n7307/abs/nature09270.html