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SUBMITTER: Cheng CY
PROVIDER: S-EPMC2866100 | biostudies-literature | 2010 Jan
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Cheng Ching-Yu CY Lee Kristine E KE Duggal Priya P Moore Emily L EL Wilson Alexander F AF Klein Ronald R Bailey-Wilson Joan E JE Klein Barbara E K BE
Obesity (Silver Spring, Md.) 20090514 1
The metabolic syndrome is a highly complex disease and has become one of the major public-health challenges worldwide. We sought to identify genetic loci with potential influence on multiple metabolic factors in a white population in Beaver Dam, Wisconsin, and to explore the possibility of genetic heterogeneity by family history of diabetes (FHD). Three metabolic factors were generated using principal-component factor analysis, and they represented: (i) glycemia, (ii) blood pressure, and (iii) c ...[more]