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The thin-fat phenotype and global metabolic disease risk.

Current opinion in clinical nutrition and metabolic care - 1 Nov 2011

Kurpad Anura V, Varadharajan Kiruba S, Aeberli Isabelle

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PURPOSE OF REVIEW: There has been a great deal of interest in the thin-fat phenotype evident in Asian Indians and its risk associations in the epidemic of noncommunicable chronic disease associated with it. The cause of this phenotype is probably related to lifestyle and environment; however, genotypic and epigenetic modifications in utero also have been considered. RECENT FINDINGS: The thin-fat phenotype occurs...

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PMID: 21892076
DOI: 10.1097/MCO.0b013e32834b6e5e

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