[Gain-of-function mutations within proprotein convertase subtilisin kexin type 9 (PCSK9) are linked to familial autosomal dominant hypercholesterolaemia, a disease characterized by elevated plasma concentrations of cholesterol associated with low-density lipoproteins (LDLs).]. 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