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Amerindians show no association of PPAR-γ2 gene Ala12 allele and obesity: an "unthrifty" variant population genetics.
Molecular biology reports - 1 Feb 2013
Arnaiz-Villena Antonio, Fernández-Honrado Mercedes, Areces Cristina, Enríquez-de-Salamanca Mercedes, Abd-El-Fatah-Khalil Sedeka, Coca Carmen, Arribas Ignacio, Algora Manuel, Rey Diego
Abstract excerpt
Obesity is for many scholars the most important starting status that gives rise to Metabolic Syndrome (MS) and Type 2 Diabetes (T2D). In the present paper, a genetically homogeneous Amerindian population, as defined by HLA genes, has been genotyped for one of the MS and T2D predisposing genes: PP...
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