Common variants of FTO are associated with childhood obesity in a cross-sectional study of 3,126 urban Indian children.

FTO variants are robustly associated with obesity and related traits in many population and shown to have variable impact during life course. Although studies have shown association of FTO variants with adiposity in adult Indian, its association in Indian children is yet to be confirmed.Here we exam...

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Main Authors: Om Prakash Dwivedi, Rubina Tabassum, Ganesh Chauhan, Saurabh Ghosh, Raman K Marwaha, Nikhil Tandon, Dwaipayan Bharadwaj
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2012-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3472993?pdf=render