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Are recently identified genetic variants regulating BMI in the general population associated with anorexia nervosa?
American journal of medical genetics. Part B, Neuropsychiatric genetics : the official publication of the International Society of Psychiatric Genetics - 5 Mar 2010
Brandys Marek K, van Elburg Annemarie A, Loos Ruth J F, Bauer Florianne, Hendriks Judith, van der Schouw Yvonne T, Adan Roger A H
Abstract excerpt
The influence of body mass index (BMI) on susceptibility to anorexia nervosa (AN) is not clear. Recently published genome-wide association (GWA) studies of the general population identified several variants influencing BMI. We genotyped these variants in an AN sample to test for association and to investigate a combined effect of BMI-increasing alleles (as determined in the original GWA studies) on the risk of...
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