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Rs7206790 and rs11644943 in FTO gene are associated with risk of obesity in Chinese school-age population.
PloS one - 1 Jan 2014
Xu Yuyang, Ling Jie, Yang Min, Wang Hao, Zhang Shuai, Zhang Xuhui, Zhu Yimin
Abstract excerpt
To evaluate the associations between candidate FTO single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) and obesity, a case-control study was conducted among Chinese school-age children, which included 500 obese cases and 500 matched controls (age, gender and location). We selected 24 candidate FTO tag-SNPs via bio-informatics analysis and performed genotyping using SNPScan technology. Results indicated that rs7206790 and...
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