polygenic hypercholesterolemia
- polygenic hypercholesterolemia
- any of a diverse group of disorders in which some combination of genetic, and frequently also environmental, factors interact to cause elevated plasma cholesterol (i.e., a hyperlipoproteinemia type II-a or II-b phenotype; see table at hyperlipoproteinemia). It is distinguished from familial hypercholesterolemia and familial combined hyperlipidemia.
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