KIF6 and atherosclerosis: We have briefly described in the introduction the important intracellular roles served by kinesins such as KIF6 and the early studies by Iakoubova, Schiffman, and colleagues [2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12], demonstrating that KIF6 is intimately involved with atherosclerosis and also with statin responsiveness.