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Association between obesity and insulin resistance with UCP2-UCP3 gene variants in Spanish children and adolescents.
Molecular genetics and metabolism - 1 Dec 2007
Ochoa María C, Santos José L, Azcona Cristina, Moreno-Aliaga María J, Martínez-González Miguel A, Martínez J Alfredo, Marti Amelia
Abstract excerpt
A number of studies have yielded controversial results on the association between polymorphisms in UCP2 and UCP3 genes with obesity and its comorbidities. The discrepancy among studies might be partially explained by the lack of consideration of the effect of adjacent loci in the same haplotype and the exclusion of key lifestyle factors in the statistical analysis. In this study, we have assessed the association...
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