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Genome-wide linkage and regional association study of obesity-related phenotypes: the GenSalt study.
Obesity (Silver Spring, Md.) - 1 Feb 2014
Liu Angela Y, Gu Dongfeng, Hixson James E, Rao Dabeeru C, Shimmin Lawrence C, Jaquish Cashell E, Liu De-Pei, He Jiang, Kelly Tanika N
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OBJECTIVE: To identify chromosomal regions harboring quantitative trait loci for waist circumference (WC) and body mass index (BMI). DESIGN AND METHODS: A genome-wide linkage scan and regional association study WC and BMI among 633 Chinese families was conducted. RESULTS: A significant linkage signal for WC was observed at 22q13.31-22q13.33 in the overall analysis (LOD = 3.13). Follow-up association study of...
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