Associations of variants in FTO and near MC4R with obesity traits in south Asian Indians

Recent genome-wide association studies show that loci in FTO and melanocortin 4 receptor (MC4R) associate with obesity-related traits. Outside Western populations the associations between these variants have not always been consistent and in Indians it has been suggested that FTO relates to diabetes...

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Huvudupphovsmän: Vasan, S, Fall, T, Neville, M, Antonisamy, B, Fall, C, Geethanjali, F, Gu, H, Raghupathy, P, Samuel, P, Thomas, N, Brismar, K, Ingelsson, E, Karpe, F
Materialtyp: Journal article
Språk:English
Publicerad: 2012