The Mouse Adult Gross Anatomy Ontology and Mammalian Phenotype Ontology are downloaded weekly from the Mouse Genome Informatics databases at Jackson Laboratories (ftp://ftp.informatics.jax.org/pub/reports/index.html). For more information about these ontologies, see the MGI Publications Page at http://www.informatics.jax.org/mgihome/other/publications.shtml.
greater than the normal amount in the blood of 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
Synonyms:
exact_synonym:
elevated total circulating cholesterol level; hypercholesterolaemia; hypercholesterolemia; increased total circulating cholesterol level
narrow_synonym:
elevated total plasma cholesterol level; elevated total serum cholesterol level; high serum cholesterol level; increased total plasma cholesterol level; increased total serum cholesterol level