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Association of exonic variants of Klotho with metabolic syndrome in Asian Indians.
Clinica chimica acta; international journal of clinical chemistry - 12 May 2011
Majumdar Vijaya, Christopher Rita
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: Klotho, an anti-aging gene, is a functional candidate for metabolic syndrome. We conducted a cross-sectional study to evaluate the association of the genetic variants of Klotho with metabolic syndrome and surrogates of insulin resistance in Asian Indians. METHODS: We recruited 428 clinically normal subjects for the study. Genotyping was done by polymerase chain reaction and restriction fragment length...
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