Polygenic risk predicts obesity in both white and black young adults

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 7, 2014, Pages

  Domingue, Benjamin W ^a   Belsky, Daniel W ^b   Harris, Kathleen Mullan ^c   Smolen, Andrew ^a   McQueen, Matthew B ^a   Boardman, Jason D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL HILL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; AGE; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CAUCASIAN; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; FEMALE; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC RISK; HUMAN; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIFACTORIAL INHERITANCE; OBESITY; PREDICTION; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; SCORING SYSTEM; SIBLING; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; WAIST HIP RATIO; ADOLESCENT; BLACK PERSON; GENETICS; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; ODDS RATIO; PATHOLOGY; SIBLING RELATION; WAIST TO HEIGHT RATIO; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AFRICAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; BODY MASS INDEX; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; HUMANS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; OBESITY; ODDS RATIO; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SIBLING RELATIONS; WAIST-HEIGHT RATIO; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84903763874     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0101596     Document Type: Article

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