Copy number variations associated with obesity related traits in African Americans: a joint analysis between GENOA and HyperGEN
Obesity is a highly heritable trait and a growing public health problem. African Americans are a genetically diverse, yet understudied population with a high prevalence of obesity (body mass index (BMI) greater than 30 kg/m2). Recent studies based upon single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) have ide...
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Format: | Online |
Language: | English |
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2012
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Online Access: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3484176/ |