As it turned out, three of her nine siblings also had no working copy of the gene and extremely low triglyceride levels. Three others had one mutated gene and one normal gene; these siblings had low triglyceride levels, but nowhere near as low as those with no functioning gene. And these people were healthy, with low levels of triglycerides, researchers reported last month in the journal Nature. Both also reported studies of the drugs in mice showing the drugs protected the animals from heart disease. Advertisement Continue reading the main storyEven more significant may be the way in which these drugs were identified.

Source: New York Times May 24, 2017 21:00 UTC