[Inhibition of PCSK9 is emerging as a novel strategy for the treatment of hypercholesterolemia and data obtained from pre-clinical studies show that use of monoclonal antibodies, antisense oligonucleotides and short interfering RNA are effective in reducing LDL-C, clinical studies, accompanied by a better understanding of PCSK9 biology, are now necessary to address whether these new compounds will have a future in clinical practice.]. Sentence from MEDLINE/PubMed, a database of the U.S. National Library of Medicine.
Gene-disease associations inferred from text-mining the literature.
DisGeNET evidence - LITERATURE