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Nature Genetics 40, 129 - 130 (2008)
doi:10.1038/ng0208-129

A treasure trove for lipoprotein biology

Aldons J Lusis1 & Päivi Pajukanta1

  1. Aldons J. Lusis is in the Departments of Human Genetics, Medicine and Molecular Genetics, and the Molecular Biology Institute, University of California, Los Angeles, California 90095, USA.
  2. Päivi Pajukanta is in the Department of Human Genetics, University of California, Los Angeles, California 90095, USA. e-mail: jlusis@mednet.ucla.edu


Plasma lipoprotein concentrations are associated with risk of coronary artery disease, a leading cause of mortality and morbidity worldwide. Three new genome-wide association studies of thousands of individuals now identify seven genes or loci contributing to lipid concentrations and confirm a number of previously reported associations.

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