Association of the FTO Gene With BMI
Open Access
- 1 April 2008
- Vol. 16 (4), 902-904
- https://doi.org/10.1038/oby.2007.126
Abstract
Variants in the FTO gene have been strongly associated with obesity in a very large sample (38,759) of diabetic and control subjects. To replicate these findings, the previously reported SNP in the F...Keywords
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