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Obesity susceptibility genetic variants identified from recent genome-wide association studies: implications in a chinese population.
The Journal of clinical endocrinology and metabolism - 1 Mar 2010
Cheung Chloe Y Y, Tso Annette W K, Cheung Bernard M Y, Xu Aimin, Ong K L, Fong Carol H Y, Wat Nelson M S, Janus Edward D, Sham Pak C, Lam Karen S L
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CONTEXT: Recent large-scale genome-wide association studies identified novel genetic variants associated with obesity and body mass index (BMI) in addition to the well-described FTO and MC4R genetic variants. OBJECTIVE: This study aimed to examine 13 previously reported obesity and/or BMI-associated loci for associations with obesity in Chinese. DESIGN AND STUDY PARTICIPANTS: This was a cross-sectional...
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