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Genetic association analysis of 30 genes related to obesity in a European American population.
International journal of obesity (2005) - 1 May 2014
Li P, Tiwari H K, Lin W-Y, Allison D B, Chung W K, Leibel R L, Yi N, Liu N
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OBJECTIVE: Obesity, which is frequently associated with diabetes, hypertension and cardiovascular diseases, is primarily the result of a net excess of caloric intake over energy expenditure. Human obesity is highly heritable, but the specific genes mediating susceptibility in non-syndromic obesity remain unclear. We tested candidate genes in pathways related to food intake and energy expenditure for association...
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