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Prognostic significance of FTO genotype in the development of obesity in Japanese: the J-SHIPP study.
International journal of obesity (2005) - 1 Nov 2009
Tabara Y, Osawa H, Guo H, Kawamoto R, Onuma H, Shimizu I, Takara Y, Nishida W, Yamamoto M, Makino H, Kohara K, Miki T
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OBJECTIVE: Susceptibility of fat mass and obesity-associated (FTO) gene polymorphisms to obesity has been reported in various populations. Polymorphisms in the melanocortin 4 receptor (MC4R) gene were recently explored as another susceptible locus. However, prognostic significance of these genetic variations has not been fully elucidated. Here, we investigated the involvement of FTO rs9939609 and MC4R rs17782313...
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