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Heritability of features of the insulin resistance syndrome in a community-based study of healthy families.
Diabetic medicine : a journal of the British Diabetic Association - 1 Dec 2002
Freeman M S, Mansfield M W, Barrett J H, Grant P J
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AIMS: To investigate genetic and environmental influences on anthropometric, metabolic and fibrinolytic traits of the insulin resistance syndrome (IRS) in a population not characterized by a high degree of insulin resistance. METHODS: We recruited 537 adults from 89 randomly ascertained healthy families of white north European origin from the general population. We used maximum likelihood analysis to estimate the...
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