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Genome-wide conditional association study reveals the influences of lifestyle cofactors on genetic regulation of body surface area in MESA population.
PloS one - 1 Jan 2021
Khatun Mita, Monir Md Mamun, Xu Ting, Xu Haiming, Zhu Jun
Abstract excerpt
Body surface area (BSA) is an important trait used for many clinical purposes. People's BSA may vary due to genetic background, race, and different lifestyle factors (such as walking, exercise, reading, smoking, transportation, etc.). GWAS of BSA was conducted on 5,324 subjects of four ethnic populations of European-American, African-American, Hispanic-American, and Chinese-American from the Multi-Ethnic Study of...
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