Genome-wide association of BMI in African Americans

Obesity

Volumn 20, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 622-627

  Ng, Maggie C Y ^a   Hester, Jessica M ^a   Wing, Maria R ^a   Li, Jiang ^a   Xu, Jianzhao ^a   Hicks, Pamela J ^a   Roh, Bong H ^a   Lu, Lingyi ^a   Divers, Jasmin ^a   Langefeld, Carl D ^a   Freedman, Barry I ^a   Palmer, Nichole D ^a   Bowden, Donald W ^a  

^a WAKE FOREST SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; ALLELE; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CADHERIN 12 TYPE 2 GENE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIABETIC NEPHROPATHY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; FEMALE; FER 1 LIKE 4 GENE; GALNT10 GENE; GENE; GENE LOCATION; GENE LOCUS; GENE REPLICATION; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MICROFIBRILLAR ASSOCIATED PROTEIN 3 ISOFORM GENE; OBESITY; POPULATION GENETIC STRUCTURE; PP13439 GENE; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; TRANSMEMBRANE PROTEIN 212 GENE;

AFRICAN AMERICANS; BODY MASS INDEX; COHORT STUDIES; DIABETIC NEPHROPATHIES; FEMALE; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OBESITY; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 84857685319     PISSN: 19307381     EISSN: 1930739X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/oby.2011.154     Document Type: Article

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