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Segregation analysis of body mass index in an unselected French-Canadian sample: the Québec Family Study.
Obesity research - 1 Jul 1993
Rice T, Borecki I B, Bouchard C, Rao D C
Abstract excerpt
Interest in a single gene etiology for obesity, as assessed by the body mass index (BMI), has been spurred recently by reports of a putative recessive major gene for extreme values, which accounts for as much as 40% of the variance. The major gene hypothesis was evaluated here in the Québec Family Study, a random sample of 375 French-Canadian volunteer families. This report represents one component in a more...
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