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      • abnormal lipid homeostasis

    • abnormal cholesterol homeostasis   MP:0005278   (174)
    Definition: anomaly in the processes involved in the maintenance of an internal equilibrium of cholesterol, the principal sterol of vertebrates and the precursor of many steroids, including bile acids and steroid hormones; it is a component of the plasma membrane lipid bilayer and of plasma lipoproteins and can be found in all animal tissues [GO:0042632, https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3691-0324];   [MGI annotations / genotypes]



    VT:0005278 (cholesterol homeostasis trait) is numbered similarly to MP:0005278 but is over in the VT ontology (semantics may or may not be similar).

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