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A multifactorial analysis of obesity as CVD risk factor: use of neural network based methods in a nutrigenetics context.
BMC bioinformatics - 8 Sept 2010
Valavanis Ioannis K, Mougiakakou Stavroula G, Grimaldi Keith A, Nikita Konstantina S
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: Obesity is a multifactorial trait, which comprises an independent risk factor for cardiovascular disease (CVD). The aim of the current work is to study the complex etiology beneath obesity and identify genetic variations and/or factors related to nutrition that contribute to its variability. To this end, a set of more than 2300 white subjects who participated in a nutrigenetics study was used. For...
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