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Genome wide association study: searching for genes underlying body mass index in the Chinese.
Biomedical and environmental sciences : BES - 1 May 2014
Yang Fang, Chen Xiang Ding, Tan Li Jun, Shen Jie, Li Ding You, Zhang Fang, Sha Bao Yong, Deng Hong Wen
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OBJECTIVE: Obesity is becoming a worldwide health problem. The genome wide association (GWA) study particularly for body mass index (BMI) has not been successfully conducted in the Chinese. In order to identify novel genes for BMI variation in the Chinese, an initial GWA study and a follow up replication study were performed. METHODS: Affymetrix 500K SNPs were genotyped for initial GWA of 597 Northern Chinese....
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