Hypercholesterlemia is a genetic diease

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hypercholesterlemia is a genetic diease that affects 1 out of 500 people worldwide. this is more that one genetic cause of the disease. Class 1 is described as an autosome dominant disease. those affected have cholesterol levels>250 as children and >300 as adults. homozygotes have cholesterol levelts of >600 as children and can have heart attacks. these individuals entirely lack a functional LDL receptor. which of the following would be the best description of its inheritance?

dominant epistatic, incompletely epistatic, complementary, recessice epistatic or codominant

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