Association Analysis of the FTO Gene with Obesity in Children of Caucasian and African Ancestry Reveals a Common Tagging SNP

Recently an association was demonstrated between the single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP), rs9939609, within the FTO locus and obesity as a consequence of a genome wide association (GWA) study of type 2 diabetes in adults. We examined the effects of two perfect surrogates for this SNP plus 11 other...

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Main Authors: Grant, Struan F. A., Li, Mingyao, Bradfield, Jonathan P., Kim, Cecilia E., Annaiah, Kiran, Santa, Erin, Glessner, Joseph T., Casalunovo, Tracy, Frackelton, Edward C., Otieno, F. George, Shaner, Julie L., Smith, Ryan M., Imielinski, Marcin, Eckert, Andrew W., Chiavacci, Rosetta M., Berkowitz, Robert I., Hakonarson, Hakon
Format: Artigo
Language:Inglês
Published: Public Library of Science 2008
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Online Access:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2262153/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18335027
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0001746
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