Association between the FTO rs9939609 Polymorphism and the Metabolic Syndrome in a Non-Caucasian Multi-ethnic Sample
Background: The rs9939609 T>A single-nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) in the FTO gene has previously been found to be associated with obesity in European Caucasian samples. The objective of this study is to examine whether this association extends to metabolic syndrome (MetS) and applies in non-Cauc...
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Format: | Article in Journal/Newspaper |
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Scholarship@Western
2008
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Online Access: | https://ir.lib.uwo.ca/vascularpub/4 http://www.cardiab.com/content/7/1/5 |