Indications for Potential Parent-of-Origin Effects within the FTO Gene

Genome-Wide Association Studies (GWAS) were successfully applied to discover associations with obesity. However, the GWAS design is usually based on unrelated individuals and inheritance information on the parental origin of the alleles is missing. Taking into account parent-of-origin may provide fu...

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Main Authors: Liu, Xuanshi, Hinney, Anke, Scholz, Markus, Scherag, André, Tönjes, Anke, Stumvoll, Michael, Stadler, Peter F., Hebebrand, Johannes, Böttcher, Yvonne
Format: Online
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science 2015
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4368796/