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The FTO genotype as a useful predictor of body weight maintenance: initial data from a 5-year follow-up study.
Metabolism: clinical and experimental - 1 Jul 2014
Matsuo Tomoaki, Nakata Yoshio, Hotta Kikuko, Tanaka Kiyoji
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OBJECTIVE: We examined associations between the fat-mass and obesity-associated (FTO) gene (rs9939609) and any weight change over a 5-year period following a 14-week lifestyle intervention among middle-aged Japanese women. MATERIALS/METHODS: One hundred twenty-eight Japanese women (BMI >25 kg/m²) participated in a 14-week weight loss intervention between 2004 and 2006. Of the participants, 62 consented to the...
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