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Genetic evidence for obesity loci involved in the regulation of body fat distribution in obese type 2 diabetes rat, OLETF.
Genomics - 15 Nov 2000
Ogino T, Wei S, Wei K, Moralejo D H, Kose H, Mizuno A, Shima K, Sasaki Y, Yamada T, Matsumoto K
Abstract excerpt
The Otsuka Long-Evans Tokushima Fatty (OLETF) rat is an animal model for obese type 2 diabetes in human. Obesity is essential for the onset of type 2 diabetes in this rat. Our present investigation was designed to identify quantitative trait loci (QTLs) contributing to obesity by performing a who...
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