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Expression of fourteen novel obesity-related genes in Zucker diabetic fatty rats.
Cardiovascular diabetology - 13 Jul 2012
Schmid Peter M, Heid Iris, Buechler Christa, Steege Andreas, Resch Markus, Birner Christoph, Endemann Dierk H, Riegger Guenter A, Luchner Andreas
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BACKGROUND: Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) are useful to reveal an association between single nucleotide polymorphisms and different measures of obesity. A multitude of new loci has recently been reported, but the exact function of most of the according genes is not known. The aim of our study was to start elucidating the function of some of these genes. METHODS: We performed an expression analysis of...
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