Dietary fat modulates the relationship between polymorphisms in the TNFA and IL-6 genes, and obesity and serum lipid concentrations in black and white South Afican women

Includes abstract. === Includes bibliographical references. === The primary aim of the thesis was to investigate associations between TNFA (TNFA-308 G>A and -238 G>A) and IL-6 (-174 G>C, IVS3+281 G>T, IVS4+869 A>G) sequence variants and obesity and serum lipid concentrations in black...

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Main Author: Joffe, Yael
Other Authors: Goedecke, Julia
Format: Doctoral Thesis
Language:English
Published: University of Cape Town 2014
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/11427/3253