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FTO genotype is associated with exercise training-induced changes in body composition.
Obesity (Silver Spring, Md.) - 1 Feb 2010
Rankinen Tuomo, Rice Treva, Teran-Garcia Margarita, Rao Dabeeru C, Bouchard Claude
Abstract excerpt
The fat mass (FM) and obesity-associated (FTO) gene is the first obesity-susceptibility gene identified by genome-wide association scans and confirmed in several follow-up studies. Homozygotes for the risk allele (A/A) have 1.67 times greater risk of obesity than those who do not have the allele. However, it is not known whether regular exercise-induced changes in body composition are influenced by the FTO...
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