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Relationship between variants of the leptin gene and obesity and metabolic biomarkers in Brazilian individuals.
Arquivos brasileiros de endocrinologia e metabologia - 1 Mar 2010
Hinuy Hamilton M, Hirata Mario H, Sampaio Marcelo F, Armaganijan Dikran, Arazi Simone Sorkin, Salazar Luis A, Hirata Rosario D C
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OBJECTIVE: The relationship between variants of the leptin gene (LEP) and obesity and metabolic biomarkers was investigated in Brazilian individuals. SUBJECTS AND METHODS: One-hundred-ten obese (BMI > 30 kg/m(2)) and 100 non-obese individuals (145 women and 65 men, aged 49 +/- 14 years) were rand...
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