Familial hypercholesterolemia Familial hypercholesterolemia is a genetic disorder that causes the person to have high cholesterol levels, and will commonly lead to cardiovascular diseases. if you inherit this mutation from only one of your parents, you have Heterozygous FH (1:300-500), and if you inherit it from both your parents you have homozygous FH (1:1,000,000). Heterozygous […]