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Genome-wide association study of morbid obesity in Han Chinese.
BMC genetics - 18 Dec 2019
Chiang Kuang-Mao, Chang Heng-Cheng, Yang Hsin-Chou, Chen Chien-Hsiun, Chen Hsin-Hung, Lee Wei-Jei, Pan Wen-Harn
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: As obesity is becoming pandemic, morbid obesity (MO), an extreme type of obesity, is an emerging issue worldwide. It is imperative to understand the factors responsible for huge weight gain in certain populations in the modern society. Very few genome-wide association studies (GWAS) have been conducted on MO patients. This study is the first MO-GWAS study in the Han-Chinese population in Asia....
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