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Metabolic risk markers in an overweight and normal weight population with oversampling of carriers of the IRS-1 972Arg-variant.
Atherosclerosis - 1 Nov 2003
Jellema Annemarie, Mensink Ronald P, Kromhout Daan, Saris Wim H M, Feskens Edith J M
Abstract excerpt
The relationship between the Gly972Arg polymorphism in the insulin receptor substrate-1 (IRS-1) gene and metabolic risk markers is not clear, possibly due to small sample sizes. Modification by body mass index (BMI) has also been suggested. Our aim was therefore to quantify the association of this 972Arg-variant with insulin, glucose and lipid levels in overweight and non-overweight subjects with oversampling of...
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