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No linkage to obesity in candidate regions of chromosome 2 and 10 in a selected sample of Swedish twins.
Twin research : the official journal of the International Society for Twin Studies - 1 Apr 2003
Iliadou Anastasia, Lichtenstein Paul, Ahlberg Susanne, Hoffstedt Johan, Arner Peter, Schalling Martin, Pedersen Nancy L, Lavebratt Catharina
Abstract excerpt
The aim of the current study was to investigate the importance of genetic and environmental effects in the variation of body mass index, and to investigate linkage for obesity to previously reported candidate regions on chromosome 2 and 10. A sample of 1422 twin pairs from the population based Swedish Twin Registry was used in order to estimate the genetic and environmental effects in the variation of body mass...
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