The Genetic Contribution of West-African Ancestry to Protection against Central Obesity in African-American Men but Not Women: Results from the ARIC and MESA Studies

Over 80% of African-American (AA) women are overweight or obese. A large racial disparity between AA and European-Americans (EA) in obesity rates exists among women, but curiously not among men. Although socio-economic and/or cultural factors may partly account for this race-by-sex interaction, the...

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Autores principales: Klimentidis, Yann C., Arora, Amit, Zhou, Jin, Kittles, Rick, Allison, David B.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Frontiers Media S.A. 2016
Materias:
Genetics
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4888933/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27313598
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fgene.2016.00089

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4888933/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27313598
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fgene.2016.00089

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