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Genetic determinants of obesity and related vascular diseases.
Vitamins and hormones - 1 Jan 2013
Winter Yaroslav, Sankowski Roman, Back Tobias
Abstract excerpt
Obesity is one of the major risk factors of vascular diseases, and its prevalence is increasing worldwide. In the past decade, progress has been made in the understanding of genetic determinants of obesity and obesity-associated diseases. Genome-wide association studies identified a number of genetic variants associated with obesity. In addition to common variants, FTO and MC4R, new loci, such as TMEM18, KCTD15,...
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