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Association of obesity susceptibility gene variants with metabolic syndrome and related traits in 1,443 Czech adolescents.
Folia biologica - 1 Jan 2013
Dušátková L, Zamrazilová H, Sedláčková B, Včelák J, Hlavatý P, Aldhoon Hainerová I, Korenková V, Bradnová O, Bendlová B, Kunešová M, Hainer V
Abstract excerpt
Genome-wide association studies have revealed several gene variants associated with obesity; however, only a few studies have further investigated their association with metabolic syndrome. We performed a study of eleven variants in/near genes TMEM18, SH2B1, KCTD15, PCSK1, BDNF, SEC16B, MC4R, and FTO in Czech adolescents and analysed their association with obesity, metabolic syndrome and related traits....
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