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[urche]

HDL genetics

Thanks, Genisi. Please help me understand our understanding of the genetics of HDL.

I am wondering if HDL subtypes are well enough understood to show the relative cardioprotective or risk profile of each type of particle. If so, do you think we are at a point where a study of the genetics of HDL subtypes, one's personal HDL fingerprint, so to speak, could be traced to one's genes?

If so, then it seems plausible to start designing treatment more specific than just trying to raise HDL, which may be a target too blunt and complicated to be clinically useful.

That's a lot of ifs.

Urche