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Large copy-number variations are enriched in cases with moderate to extreme obesity.
Diabetes - 1 Oct 2010
Wang Kai, Li Wei-Dong, Glessner Joseph T, Grant Struan F A, Hakonarson Hakon, Price R Arlen
Abstract excerpt
OBJECTIVE: Obesity is an increasingly common disorder that predisposes to several medical conditions, including type 2 diabetes. We investigated whether large and rare copy-number variations (CNVs) differentiate moderate to extreme obesity from never-overweight control subjects. RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS: Using single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) arrays, we performed a genome-wide CNV survey on 430 obese case...
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