Triglyceride associated polymorphisms of the APOA5 gene have very different allele frequencies in Pune, India compared to Europeans

Background: the APOA5 gene variants, -1131T>C and S19W, are associated with altered triglyceride concentrations in studies of subjects of Caucasian and East Asian descent. There are few studies of these variants in South Asians. We investigated whether the two APOA5 variants also show similar ass...

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Main Authors: Chandak, Giriraj R. (Author), Ward, Kirsten J. (Author), Yajnik, Chittaranjan S. (Author), Pandit, Anand N. (Author), Bavdekar, Ashish (Author), Joglekar, Charu V. (Author), Fall, Caroline H.D (Author), Mohankrishna, P. (Author), Wilkin, Terence J. (Author), Metcalf, Bradley S. (Author), Weedon, Michael N. (Author), Frayling, Timothy M. (Author), Hattersley, Andrew T. (Author)
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Language:English
Published: 2006-10-10.
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