Common Variants of FTO Are Associated with Childhood Obesity in a Cross-Sectional Study of 3,126 Urban Indian Children

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 10, 2012, Pages

  Dwivedi, Om Prakash ^a   Tabassum, Rubina ^a   Chauhan, Ganesh ^a   Ghosh, Saurabh ^b   Marwaha, Raman K ^c   Tandon, Nikhil ^d   Bharadwaj, Dwaipayan ^a  

^a CSIR INSTITUTE OF GENOMICS AND INTEGRATIVE BIOLOGY   (India)

^b INDIAN STATISTICAL INSTITUTE   (India)

^c INSTITUTE OF NUCLEAR MEDICINE AND ALLIED SCIENCES   (India)

^d ALL INDIA INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

THYROTROPIN;

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; BODY WEIGHT; CHILD; CHILDHOOD OBESITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; EFFECT SIZE; ETHNIC GROUP; EUROPEAN; FEMALE; FTO GENE; GENE; GENE LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC RISK; GENETIC TRAIT; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HUMAN; INDIAN; MALE; PATHOGENESIS; SCHOOL CHILD; SOUTH ASIAN; THYROTROPIN BLOOD LEVEL; URBAN POPULATION; WAIST HIP RATIO;

ADOLESCENT; CHILD; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; GENETIC VARIATION; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; INDIA; OBESITY; PROTEINS; URBAN POPULATION;

EID: 84867593367     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0047772     Document Type: Article

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