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Identification of potentially common loci between childhood obesity and coronary artery disease using pleiotropic approaches.
Scientific reports - 14 Nov 2022
Wang Lianke, Zhang Qiang, Xu Fei, Brickell Anna, Zhou Qianyu, Yang Bin, Sun Changqing
Abstract excerpt
Childhood obesity remains one of the most important issues in global health, which is implicated in many chronic diseases. Converging evidence suggests that a higher body mass index during childhood (CBMI) is significantly associated with increased coronary artery disease (CAD) susceptibility in adulthood, which may partly arise from the shared genetic determination. Despite genome-wide association studies...
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