Rs7206790 and rs11644943 in FTO gene are associated with risk of obesity in Chinese school-age population.

Rs7206790 and rs11644943 in FTO gene are associated with risk of obesity in Chinese school-age population.

To evaluate the associations between candidate FTO single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) and obesity, a case-control study was conducted among Chinese school-age children, which included 500 obese cases and 500 matched controls (age, gender and location). We selected 24 candidate FTO tag-SNPs via b...

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Main Authors: Yuyang Xu, Jie Ling, Min Yang, Hao Wang, Shuai Zhang, Xuhui Zhang, Yimin Zhu
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2014-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4176023?pdf=render

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