Familial hypercholesterolemia (FH) is the most common genetic disorder of lipid metabolism. The gold standard for FH diagnosis is genetic testing, available, however, only in selected university hospitals. Clinical scores – for example, the Dutch Lipid Score – are often employed as alternative, more accessible, albeit less accurate FH diagnostic tools. To overcome the limitations of these traditional methods and to obtain a more reliable approach to FH diagnosis we implement a “virtual” genetic test using machine-learning approaches.
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