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Subtyping obesity with microarrays: implications for the diagnosis and treatment of obesity.
International journal of obesity (2005) - 1 Apr 2009
Wang S, Sparks L M, Xie H, Greenway F L, de Jonge L, Smith S R
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OBJECTIVE: Obese patients respond differently to weight loss interventions. No efficient diagnostic tool exists to separate obese patients into subtypes as a means to improve prediction of response to interventions. We aimed to separate obese subjects into distinct subgroups using microarray technology to identify gene expression-based subgroups to predict weight loss. DESIGN: A total of 72 obese men and women...
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