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Genome-wide association study identifies a functional myostatin variant increasing lean mass in humans

2026-04-08

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<title>Abstract</title> <p> <bold>Muscle mass is central to physical function and metabolic health</bold> <sup> <bold>1</bold> </sup> <bold>, but can decrease with disease, aging</bold> <sup> <bold>2</bold> </sup> <bold>and weight loss interventions</bold> <sup> <bold>3-5</bold> </sup> <bold>. As such interventions become more widely used, agents that preserve or increase muscle mass are needed. To i...

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Literature Corpus work: 6315884d-07ec-59fe-994b-604241bc5bea
DOI: 10.21203/rs.3.rs-9238373/v1

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