Article
Study of 11 BMI-associated loci identified in GWAS for associations with central obesity in the Chinese children.
PloS one - 1 Jan 2013
Xi Bo, Cheng Hong, Shen Yue, Chandak Giriraj R, Zhao Xiaoyuan, Hou Dongqing, Wu Lijun, Wang Xingyu, Mi Jie
Abstract excerpt
OBJECTIVE: Recent genome-wide association studies have identified many single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) associated with body mass index (BMI)/generalized obesity. In this study, we aimed to examine the associations of identified SNPs with risk of central obesity in a child population from China. METHODS: We genotyped 11 SNPs (FTO rs9939609, MC4R rs17782313, GNPDA2 rs10938397, BDNF rs6265, FAIM2 rs7138803,...