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Genetic risk for CAD, and many common diseases, can be simplified into a monogenic (left) and polygenic (right) component. Monogenic risk variants tends to be rare, with small numbers of genetic mutations with large impacts on genetic risk. Polygenic risk variants tend to be more common, with more modest impacts on risk individually, and with cumulative effects that can be significant.
