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Analysis of FTO gene variants with obesity and glucose homeostasis measures in the multiethnic Insulin Resistance Atherosclerosis Study cohort.
International journal of obesity (2005) - 1 Sept 2011
Wing M R, Ziegler J M, Langefeld C D, Roh B H, Palmer N D, Mayer-Davis E J, Rewers M J, Haffner S M, Wagenknecht L E, Bowden D W
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OBJECTIVE: Previous studies have replicated the association of variants within FTO (fat mass- and obesity-associated) intron 1 with obesity and adiposity quantitative traits in populations of European ancestry. Non-European populations, however, have not been so intensively studied. The goal of this investigation was to examine the association of FTO single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs), prominent in the...
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