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Beta 3-adrenergic-receptor polymorphism: a genetic marker for visceral fat obesity and the insulin resistance syndrome.
Diabetologia - 1 Feb 1997
Sakane N, Yoshida T, Umekawa T, Kondo M, Sakai Y, Takahashi T
Abstract excerpt
We investigated whether the polymorphism of the beta 3-adrenergic receptor (beta 3-AR) gene, which is associated with insulin resistance in non-diabetic subjects and an earlier onset of non-insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus in Pima Indians, was associated with visceral fat obesity and features of the insulin resistance syndrome in Japanese premenopausal obese women. There was no difference between 131 obese...
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