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The obesity-risk variant of FTO is inversely related with the So-Eum constitutional type: genome-wide association and replication analyses.
BMC complementary and alternative medicine - 15 Apr 2015
Cha Seongwon, Yu Hyunjoo, Park Ah Yeon, Oh Soo A, Kim Jong Yeol
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BACKGROUND: Body constitutional types described in the traditional Korean medicine system, Sasang constitutional medicine, are heritable, as has been revealed by twin and family studies. Thus, individuals with the same constitution type usually have similar pathophysiological and psychological traits. In several recent genome-wide association (GWA) analyses performed to identify constitution-associated variants,...
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