Polymorphism of haptoglobin in human serum was first discovered over 60 years ago. A new paper characterizes the complex structural variation at the HP locus in detail and, by using imputation from flanking SNP genotype data, shows that it affects blood cholesterol levels.
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Hollox, E., Wain, L. Recurrent mutation at the classical haptoglobin structural polymorphism. Nat Genet 48, 347–348 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1038/ng.3534
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