Article
LEP, LDLR and APOA4 gene polymorphisms and their relationship with the risk of overweight, obesity and chronic diseases in adults of the State of Sucre, Venezuela.
Biomedica : revista del Instituto Nacional de Salud - 3 Mar 2016
Rodríguez-Arroyo Greta, Paradisi Irene, Vívenes-Lugo Merlyn, Castro-Guerra Dinorah, Rodríguez-Larralde Álvaro
Abstract excerpt
INTRODUCTION: Overweight, obesity and some chronic diseases have become more prevalent recently. It is well known that their causes may be genetic, epigenetic, environmental, or a mixture of these. OBJECTIVE: To analyze the relationship between nine single nucleotide polymorphisms of genes LEP (rs2167270), LDLR (rs885765, rs688, rs5925, rs55903358, ) and APOA4 (, , ) with obesity-related...