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Genetic and environmental relationships of metabolic and weight phenotypes to metabolic syndrome and diabetes: the healthy twin study.
Metabolic syndrome and related disorders - 1 Feb 2015
Song Yun-Mi, Sung Joohon, Lee Kayoung
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BACKGROUND: We aimed to examine the relationships, including genetic and environmental correlations, between metabolic and weight phenotypes and factors related to diabetes and metabolic syndrome. DESIGN AND METHODS: Participants of the Healthy Twin Study without diabetes (n=2687; 895 monozygotic and 204 dizygotic twins, and 1588 nontwin family members; mean age, 42.5±13.1 years) were stratified according to body...
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