The major finding, aside from new loci, is that coding variants explain about 1/3 of the lipid loci in Europeans. East Asian variants confirm many of the same genes, but we often see different variants in East Asians.
October 31, 2017
Two new publications focused on coding variants illuminate genes involved in blood lipid levels
DCMB faculty member, Cristen Willer, is a senior author of two recent publications in Nature Genetics.