“…Given the roles of G5G8 in opposing dietary sterol accumulation and biliary cholesterol secretion, it is unsurprising that both rare and common variants have been associated with plasma cholesterol, non-cholesterol sterols, low-density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL-C), and atherosclerotic and gallbladder disease across a large number of studies and populations ([ 68 , 69 , 70 , 71 , 72 , 73 , 74 , 75 , 76 , 77 , 78 , 79 , 80 ], incomplete list). Other associations are intriguing and include insulin resistance (G8:D19H) and type 2 diabetes (G5:G604E, G8:Y54C) and its renal complications (G8:T400K) [ 81 , 82 , 83 ].…”