Biogeographic Ancestry Is Associated with Higher Total Body Adiposity among African-American Females: The Boston Area Community Health Survey

OBJECTIVES: The prevalence of obesity is disproportionately higher among African-Americans and Hispanics as compared to whites. We investigated the role of biogeographic ancestry (BGA) on adiposity and changes in adiposity in the Boston Area Community Health Survey. METHODS: We evaluated association...

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I publikationen:PLoS One
Huvudupphovsmän: Goonesekera, Sunali D., Fang, Shona C., Piccolo, Rebecca S., Florez, Jose C., McKinlay, John B.
Materialtyp: Artigo
Språk:Inglês
Publicerad: Public Library of Science 2015
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Länkar:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4395279/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25875902
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0122808
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