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Adiposity and Genetic Factors in Relation to Triglycerides and Triglyceride-Rich Lipoproteins in the Women's Genome Health Study.
Clinical chemistry - 1 Jan 2018
Ahmad Shafqat, Mora Samia, Franks Paul W, Orho-Melander Marju, Ridker Paul M, Hu Frank B, Chasman Daniel I
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BACKGROUND: Previous results from Scandinavian cohorts have shown that obesity accentuates the effects of common genetic susceptibility variants on increased triglycerides (TG). Whether such interactions are present in the US population and further selective for particular TG-rich lipoprotein subfractions is unknown. METHODS: We examined these questions using body mass index (BMI) and waist circumference (WC)...
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