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Regional fat depot masses are influenced by protein-coding gene variants

Waist-to-hip ratio (WHR) is a prominent cardiometabolic risk factor that increases cardio-metabolic disease risk independently of BMI and for which multiple genetic loci have been identified. However, WHR is a relatively crude proxy for fat distribution and it does not capture all variation in fat d...

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Autores principales: Neville, Matt J., Wittemans, Laura B. L., Pinnick, Katherine E., Todorčević, Marijana, Kaksonen, Risto, Pietiläinen, Kirsi H., Luan, Jian’an, Scott, Robert A., Wareham, Nicholas J., Langenberg, Claudia, Karpe, Fredrik
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6542527/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31145760
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0217644