Associations of Adiponectin with Individual European Ancestry in African Americans: the Jackson Heart Study

Associations of Adiponectin with Individual European Ancestry in African Americans: the Jackson Heart Study

Background: Compared with European Americans, African Americans (AA) exhibit lower levels of the cardio-metabolically protective adiponectin even after accounting for adiposity measures. Because few studies have examined in AA the association between adiponectin and genetic admixture, a dense panel...

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Main Authors: Aurelian eBidulescu, Shweta eChoudhry, Solomon K Musani, Sarah G Buxbaum, Jiankang eLiu, Charles N Rotimi, James G Wilson, Herman A Taylor, Gary H Gibbons
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2014-02-01
Series:Frontiers in Genetics
Subjects:
Adiponectin
African Americans
Insulin Resistance
Obesity
cohort study
minorities
Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fgene.2014.00022/full

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