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Association of K121Q polymorphism in ENPP1 (PC-1) with BMI in Caucasian and African-American adults.
International journal of obesity (2005) - 1 Feb 2006
Matsuoka N, Patki A, Tiwari H K, Allison D B, Johnson S B, Gregersen P K, Leibel R L, Chung W K
Abstract excerpt
OBJECTIVE: To test for association of the ectonucleotide pyrophosphatase/phosphodiesterase 1 (ENPP1) K121Q polymorphism with body mass index (BMI) and diabetes in a large sample of Caucasians and African-Americans by selectively genotyping individuals at the extremes of the phenotypic distribution. SUBJECTS: Subsets comprising the extremes of the BMI distribution (10th-20th and above the 90th BMI percentile for...
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