In Fight Against Heart Disease, Gene-Hunters Follow Trail from Amish to Pakistan

In Fight Against Heart Disease, Gene-Hunters Follow Trail from Amish to Pakistan

February 2017

The Philadelphia Inquirer chronicles the research of Daniel Rader, MD, and Danish Saleheen, MD, into the role that cholesterol and triglycerides play in human biology—and how that in turn applies to clinical cardiology.

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