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Worldwide ethnic distribution of the G protein beta3 subunit 825T allele and its association with obesity in Caucasian, Chinese, and Black African individuals.
Journal of the American Society of Nephrology : JASN - 1 Sept 1999
Siffert W, Forster P, Jöckel K H, Mvere D A, Brinkmann B, Naber C, Crookes R, Du P Heyns A, Epplen J T, Fridey J, Freedman B I, Müller N, Stolke D, Sharma A M, Al Moutaery K, Grosse-Wilde H, Buerbaum B, Ehrlich T, Ahmad H R, Horsthemke B, Du Toit E D, Tiilikainen A, Ge J, Wang Y, Rosskopf D
Abstract excerpt
Recently, it was demonstrated that one allele (825T) of the gene encoding the G protein beta3 subunit (GNB3) is associated with hypertension in Germans. This study investigates a possible association with obesity in young male Germans, Chinese, and black South Africans with low, intermediate, and...
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