Association between the FTO rs9939609 Polymorphism and the Metabolic Syndrome in a Non-Caucasian Multi-ethnic Sample

• Main Authors: Al-Attar, Salam A., Pollex, Rebecca L., Ban, Matthew R., Young, T Kue, Bjerregaard, Peter, Anand, Sonia S., Yusuf, Salim, Zinman, Bernard, Harris, Stewart B., Hanley, Anthony J. G., Connelly, Philip W., Huff, Murray W., Hegele, Robert A.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: Scholarship@Western 2008
• Subjects: Adult; Asian Continental Ancestry Group; Body Size; Canada; Cholesterol; HDL; Female; Gene Frequency; Genetic Predisposition to Disease; Humans; Indians; North American; Inuits; Male; Metabolic Syndrome X; Middle Aged; Odds Ratio; Phenotype; Polymorphism; Single Nucleotide; Proteins; Risk Assessment; Risk Factors; Sex Factors; Cardiology; Medical Genetics; Medical Microbiology; The Waist; inuits
• Online Access: https://ir.lib.uwo.ca/vascularpub/4; http://www.cardiab.com/content/7/1/5

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...