Admixture Mapping of 15,280 African Americans Identifies Obesity Susceptibility Loci on Chromosomes 5 and X

The prevalence of obesity (body mass index (BMI) ≥30 kg/m(2)) is higher in African Americans than in European Americans, even after adjustment for socioeconomic factors, suggesting that genetic factors may explain some of the difference. To identify genetic loci influencing BMI, we carried out a poo...

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Auteurs principaux: Cheng, Ching-Yu, Kao, W. H. Linda, Patterson, Nick, Tandon, Arti, Haiman, Christopher A., Harris, Tamara B., Xing, Chao, John, Esther M., Ambrosone, Christine B., Brancati, Frederick L., Coresh, Josef, Press, Michael F., Parekh, Rulan S., Klag, Michael J., Meoni, Lucy A., Hsueh, Wen-Chi, Fejerman, Laura, Pawlikowska, Ludmila, Freedman, Matthew L., Jandorf, Lina H., Bandera, Elisa V., Ciupak, Gregory L., Nalls, Michael A., Akylbekova, Ermeg L., Orwoll, Eric S., Leak, Tennille S., Miljkovic, Iva, Li, Rongling, Ursin, Giske, Bernstein, Leslie, Ardlie, Kristin, Taylor, Herman A., Boerwinckle, Eric, Zmuda, Joseph M., Henderson, Brian E., Wilson, James G., Reich, David
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Langue:Inglês
Publié: Public Library of Science 2009
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Accès en ligne:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2679192/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19461885
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgen.1000490
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