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Adolescent obesity and the role of the fat mass and obesity-associated gene polymorphism.
Clinical and investigative medicine. Medecine clinique et experimentale - 17 Dec 2017
Çöl Nilgün, Demircioğlu-Kiliç Beltinge, Nacak Muradiye, Araz Mustafa
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PURPOSE: The association between fat mass and obesity-associated (FTO) gene and obesity is unclear in both adults and adolescents. The aim of this study was to examine the role of the FTO gene variant rs9939609 as a candidate gene for obesity and the relationship between insulin resistance (IR), metabolic syndrome (MetS), estimated glomerular filtration rate (eGFR) and neutrophil-to-lymphocyte ratio (NLR)....
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