Common Variants in FTO Are Not Significantly Associated with Obesity-Related Phenotypes among Samoans of Polynesia

Annals of Human Genetics

Volumn 76, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 17-24

  Karns, Rebekah ^a   Viali, Satupaitea ^b   Tuitele, John ^c   Sun, Guangyun ^a   Cheng, Hong ^a   Weeks, Daniel E ^d   Mcgarvey, Stephen T ^e   Deka, Ranjan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b Ministry of Health   (Samoa)

^c Tafuna Family Health Center   (American Samoa)

^d UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH GRADUATE SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^e BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Association analysis; FTO; Obesity; Samoa

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AMERICAN SAMOA; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FAT MASS AND OBESITY ASSOCIATED GENE; FEMALE; GENE; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HUMAN; MALE; OBESITY; PHENOTYPE; POLYNESIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; SOCIAL CLASS; SOCIOECONOMICS;

ADULT; AMERICAN SAMOA; FEMALE; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OBESITY; PHENOTYPE; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; PROTEINS; SAMOA;

EID: 84155164901     PISSN: 00034800     EISSN: 14691809     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-1809.2011.00686.x     Document Type: Article

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