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Arachidonic acid as a target for treating hypertriglyceridemia reproduced by a causal network analysis and an intervention study

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The authors thank the staff and participants of the Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities (ARIC) Study for their important contributions. The corresponding author appreciates Dr. Ballantyne for his suggestion to prepare this report and Dr. Hanis for his comments on the manuscript.

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  1. University of Texas, Health Science Center, Houston, TX, 77030, USA

    Azam Yazdani

  2. Climax Data Pattern, Houston, TX, USA

    Azam Yazdani, Akram Yazdani & Ahmad Samiei

  3. Department of Genetics and Genomic Sciences, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, 10029, USA

    Akram Yazdani

  4. Jarrow Formulas, Inc., 1824 S. Robertson Blvd, Los Angeles, CA, 90035, USA

    Thomas A. Bowman

  5. ReGenera Research Group for Aging Intervention, Milan, Italy

    Francesco Marotta

  6. Department of Cardiovascular Sciences, Houston Methodist, Houston, USA

    John P. Cooke

  7. Hasso Plattner Institute, 14482, Potsdam, Germany

    Ahmad Samiei

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Yazdani, A., Yazdani, A., Bowman, T.A. et al. Arachidonic acid as a target for treating hypertriglyceridemia reproduced by a causal network analysis and an intervention study. Metabolomics 14, 78 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11306-018-1368-2

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