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The contribution of recently identified adult BMI risk loci to paediatric obesity in a Singaporean Chinese childhood dataset.
Pediatric obesity - 1 Dec 2017
Dorajoo R, Ong R T-H, Sim X, Wang L, Liu W, Tai E S, Liu J, Saw S-M
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INTRODUCTION: Recent genome-wide association studies have identified 103 adult obesity risk loci; however, it is unclear if these findings are relevant to East-Asian childhood body mass index (BMI) levels. METHODS AND RESULTS: We evaluated for paediatric obesity associations at these risk loci utilizing genome-wide data from Chinese childhood subjects in the Singapore Cohort study Of the Risk factors for Myopia...
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