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Cholesterol is the obligate precursor of every steroid hormone. Lipid-handling genes set the substrate supply for steroidogenesis and neurosteroid synthesis, and several double as drug/xenobiotic transporters.
Sorted by how often each gene is cited in corpus records, then alphabetically.
LDL receptor related protein 2
apolipoprotein A1
apolipoprotein B
cubilin
diacylglycerol O-acyltransferase 1
diacylglycerol O-acyltransferase 2
fatty acid binding protein 4
fatty acid binding protein 5
fatty acid binding protein 7
low density lipoprotein receptor
lipase E, hormone sensitive type
NPC intracellular cholesterol transporter 1
NPC1 like intracellular cholesterol transporter 1
NPC intracellular cholesterol transporter 2
perilipin 1
perilipin 2
scavenger receptor class B member 1
sterol O-acyltransferase 1
sterol O-acyltransferase 2