Association between the FTO rs9939609 polymorphism and the metabolic syndrome in a non-Caucasian multi-ethnic sample

BACKGROUND: The rs9939609 T>A single-nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) in the FTO gene has previously been found to be associated with obesity in European Caucasian samples. The objective of this study is to examine whether this association extends to metabolic syndrome (MetS) and applies in non-Cauc...

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Autores principales: Al-Attar, Salam A, Pollex, Rebecca L, Ban, Matthew R, Young, T Kue, Bjerregaard, Peter, Anand, Sonia S, Yusuf, Salim, Zinman, Bernard, Harris, Stewart B, Hanley, Anthony JG, Connelly, Philip W, Huff, Murray W, Hegele, Robert A
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2008
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Original Investigation
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2275229/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18339204
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1475-2840-7-5

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2275229/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18339204
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1475-2840-7-5

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