Metabolic Syndrome

Metabolic syndrome (MetS) is the commonly observed clustering of obesity, hypertension, dyslipidemia, and insulin resistance. The components of MetS occur together more often than expected by chance and display significant heritability. Investigations into monogenic diseases that model features of the common MetS have uncovered responsible genes. Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) of the components of the MetS have been enormously …