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Genetic risk score for adult body mass index associations with childhood and adolescent weight gain in an African population
BACKGROUND: Ninety-seven independent single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) are robustly associated with adult body mass index (BMI kg/m(2)) in Caucasian populations. The relevance of such variants in African populations at different stages of the life course (such as childhood) is unclear. We teste...
Autores principales: | Munthali, Richard J., Sahibdeen, Venesa, Kagura, Juliana, Hendry, Liesl M., Norris, Shane A., Ong, Ken K., Day, Felix R., Lombard, Zané |
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Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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BioMed Central
2018
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6090951/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30123368 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12263-018-0613-7 |
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