Article
Two obesity susceptibility loci in LYPLAL1 and ETV5 independently associated with childhood hypertension in Chinese population.
Gene - 5 Sept 2017
Lv Duo, Zhou Dan, Zhang Yan, Zhang Shuai, Zhu Yi-Min
Abstract excerpt
AIMS: Genome-wide association studies have identified novel obesity-associated susceptibility loci. Associations of these variants with childhood obesity have been studied in our previous research. The purpose of this study is to investigate if these loci are associated with hypertension being independent of obesity in Chinese children and adolescents. METHODS: Nineteen candidate SNPs were genotyped using...
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