Risk of Type 2 Diabetes and Obesity Is Differentially Associated with Variation in FTO in Whites and African-Americans in the ARIC Study

Single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) in the fat mass and obesity associated (FTO) gene are associated with body mass index (BMI) in populations of European descent. The FTO rs9939609 variant, first detected in a genome-wide association study of diabetes, conferred an increased disease risk that wa...

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Autores principales: Bressler, Jan, Kao, W. H. Linda, Pankow, James S., Boerwinkle, Eric
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2010
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2873943/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20502638
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0010521

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2873943/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20502638
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0010521

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