Appetite regulation genes are associated with body mass index in black South African adolescents: a genetic association study

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BACKGROUND: Obesity is a complex trait with both environmental and genetic contributors. Genome-wide association studies have identified several variants that are robustly associated with obesity and body mass index (BMI), many of which are found within genes involved in appetite regulation. Currently, genetic association data for obesity are lacking in Africans-a single genome-wide association study and a few...

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