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Genome-wide scan for metabolic syndrome and related quantitative traits in Hong Kong Chinese and confirmation of a susceptibility locus on chromosome 1q21-q25.
Diabetes - 1 Oct 2004
Ng Maggie C Y, So Wing-Yee, Lam Vincent K L, Cockram Clive S, Bell Graeme I, Cox Nancy J, Chan Juliana C N
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We conducted autosomal genome scans to map loci for metabolic syndrome (MES) and related traits in the Hong Kong Family Diabetes Study. We selected 55 families with 137 affected members (121 affected relative pairs) for nonparametric linkage analysis on MES. We also selected 179 families with 897 members (2,127 relative pairs) for variance component-based linkage analyses on seven MES-related traits: waist...
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