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A fine-mapping study of central obesity loci incorporating functional annotation and imputation.
European journal of human genetics : EJHG - 1 Sept 2018
Zhang Xiaoyu, Cupples L Adrienne, Liu Ching-Ti
Abstract excerpt
A recent genome-wide association study (GWAS) of central obesity identified 27 loci, from sex-combined analysis, associated with waist-to-hip ratio adjusted for body-mass index (WHRadjBMI) in European-ancestry individuals. Nevertheless, the identified variants may not be the biological causal ones due to the presence of linkage disequilibrium (LD). To better understand the mechanisms underlying the identified...
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