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Interactive effects between polymorphisms in the beta-adrenergic receptors and longitudinal changes in obesity.
Obesity research - 1 Mar 2005
Ellsworth Darrell L, Coady Sean A, Chen Wei, Srinivasan Sathanur R, Boerwinkle Eric, Berenson Gerald S
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We assessed interactions between polymorphisms in the beta-adrenergic receptor genes and longitudinal changes in obesity from childhood to adulthood using longitudinal data collected over a 24-year period from 1973 to 1996. Sex- and age-stratified analyses using random coefficients models were used to examine gene-gene interaction effects on obesity measures in 1179 African-American and white men and women (71%...
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