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A novel gene THSD7A is associated with obesity.
International journal of obesity (2005) - 1 Nov 2015
Nizamuddin S, Govindaraj P, Saxena S, Kashyap M, Mishra A, Singh S, Rotti H, Raval R, Nayak J, Bhat B K, Prasanna B V, Dhumal V R, Bhale S, Joshi K S, Dedge A P, Bharadwaj R, Gangadharan G G, Nair S, Gopinath P M, Patwardhan B, Kondaiah P, Satyamoorthy K, Valiathan M S, Thangaraj K
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Body mass index (BMI) is a non-invasive measurement of obesity. It is commonly used for assessing adiposity and obesity-related risk prediction. Genetic differences between ethnic groups are important factors, which contribute to the variation in phenotypic effects. India inhabited by the first out-of-Africa human population and the contemporary Indian populations are admixture of two ancestral populations;...
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