Association analysis of FTO gene polymorphisms and obesity risk among Egyptian children and adolescents

Obesity is a common disorder that has a significant impact on human health as it may lead to many serious diseases and sometimes morbidity. Previous genome-wide association studies (GWAS) confirmed that there is a relationship between some variants in the first intron of the fat mass and obesity ass...

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Main Authors: Samar Samir Abdelmajed, Mohamed Youssef, Moushira Erfan Zaki, Naglaa Abu-Mandil Hassan, Somaia Ismail
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: KeAi Communications Co., Ltd. 2017-09-01
Series:Genes and Diseases
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Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2352304217300375