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Validation of a Genome-Wide Polygenic Score for Obesity in South Asians
2024-06-11
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<title>Abstract</title> <p>Obesity is a complex disorder, manifested by the interaction of inherited and environmental factors and modulated by a person’s lifestyle habits. India has witnessed more than two-fold increase in the number of overweight adults in the last 30 years. Polygenic risk score (PRS) quantitatively measures an individual’s risk for common diseases. PRS has been studied in obesity in Caucasian...
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- Literature Corpus work
- ead20924-3e66-5e8b-ace8-fb26e18845aa
- DOI
- 10.21203/rs.3.rs-4460496/v1
