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Genetic variant of AMD1 is associated with obesity in urban Indian children.
PloS one - 1 Jan 2012
Tabassum Rubina, Jaiswal Alok, Chauhan Ganesh, Dwivedi Om Prakash, Ghosh Saurabh, Marwaha Raman K, Tandon Nikhil, Bharadwaj Dwaipayan
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BACKGROUND: Hyperhomocysteinemia is regarded as a risk factor for cardiovascular diseases, diabetes and obesity. Manifestation of these chronic metabolic disorders starts in early life marked by increase in body mass index (BMI). We hypothesized that perturbations in homocysteine metabolism in ea...
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