Background: Strong genetic evidence supports the associations between key genes in triglyceride (TG) metabolism via the lipoprotein lipase (LPL) pathway (i.e., LPL, APOC3, and ANGPTL3) and coronary ...
Glybera is a case study in the pitfalls of pioneering gene therapy: the lipoprotein lipase deficiency (LPLD) treatment is to be withdrawn from the market after proving to be a huge commercial failure.
UniQuire’s Glybera (alipogene tiparvovec) was withdrawn from the European market five years after it was approved to treat familial lipoprotein lipase deficiency (LPLD). More recently, ...