Genome-Wide Association Scan Shows Genetic Variants in the FTO Gene Are Associated with Obesity-Related Traits

The obesity epidemic is responsible for a substantial economic burden in developed countries and is a major risk factor for type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular disease. The disease is the result not only of several environmental risk factors, but also of genetic predisposition. To take advantage of r...

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Autores principales: Scuteri, Angelo, Sanna, Serena, Chen, Wei-Min, Uda, Manuela, Albai, Giuseppe, Strait, James, Najjar, Samer, Nagaraja, Ramaiah, Orrú, Marco, Usala, Gianluca, Dei, Mariano, Lai, Sandra, Maschio, Andrea, Busonero, Fabio, Mulas, Antonella, Ehret, Georg B, Fink, Ashley A, Weder, Alan B, Cooper, Richard S, Galan, Pilar, Chakravarti, Aravinda, Schlessinger, David, Cao, Antonio, Lakatta, Edward, Abecasis, Gonçalo R
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2007
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1934391/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17658951
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgen.0030115

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1934391/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17658951
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgen.0030115

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