Genomic ancestry and education level independently influence abdominal fat distributions in a Brazilian admixed population.
We aimed to identify the independent associations of genomic ancestry and education level with abdominal fat distributions in the 1982 Pelotas birth cohort study, Brazil. In 2,890 participants (1,409 men and 1,481 women), genomic ancestry was assessed using genotype data on 370,539 genome-wide varia...
Main Authors: | Giovanny Vinícius Araújo de França, Emanuella De Lucia Rolfe, Bernardo Lessa Horta, Denise Petrucci Gigante, John S Yudkin, Ken K Ong, Cesar Gomes Victora |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Public Library of Science (PLoS)
2017-01-01
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Series: | PLoS ONE |
Online Access: | http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC5459508?pdf=render |
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