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A genomewide linkage scan for quantitative-trait loci for obesity phenotypes.
American journal of human genetics - 1 May 2002
Deng Hong-Wen, Deng Hongyi, Liu Yong-Jun, Liu Yao-Zhong, Xu Fu-Hua, Shen Hui, Conway Theresa, Li Jin-Long, Huang Qing-Yang, Davies K M, Recker Robert R
Abstract excerpt
Obesity is an increasingly serious health problem in the world. Body mass index (BMI), percentage fat mass, and body fat mass are important indices of obesity. For a sample of pedigrees that contains >10,000 relative pairs (including 1,249 sib pairs) that are useful for linkage analyses, we perfo...
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