Admixture Mapping of 15,280 African Americans Identifies Obesity Susceptibility Loci on Chromosomes 5 and X

The prevalence of obesity (body mass index (BMI) ≥30 kg/m(2)) is higher in African Americans than in European Americans, even after adjustment for socioeconomic factors, suggesting that genetic factors may explain some of the difference. To identify genetic loci influencing BMI, we carried out a poo...

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Autores principales: Cheng, Ching-Yu, Kao, W. H. Linda, Patterson, Nick, Tandon, Arti, Haiman, Christopher A., Harris, Tamara B., Xing, Chao, John, Esther M., Ambrosone, Christine B., Brancati, Frederick L., Coresh, Josef, Press, Michael F., Parekh, Rulan S., Klag, Michael J., Meoni, Lucy A., Hsueh, Wen-Chi, Fejerman, Laura, Pawlikowska, Ludmila, Freedman, Matthew L., Jandorf, Lina H., Bandera, Elisa V., Ciupak, Gregory L., Nalls, Michael A., Akylbekova, Ermeg L., Orwoll, Eric S., Leak, Tennille S., Miljkovic, Iva, Li, Rongling, Ursin, Giske, Bernstein, Leslie, Ardlie, Kristin, Taylor, Herman A., Boerwinckle, Eric, Zmuda, Joseph M., Henderson, Brian E., Wilson, James G., Reich, David
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2009
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2679192/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19461885
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgen.1000490

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