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SUBMITTER: Cohen SS
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3474141 | biostudies-literature | 2011 Oct
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Cohen Sarah S SS Gammon Marilie D MD North Kari E KE Millikan Robert C RC Lange Ethan M EM Williams Scott M SM Zheng Wei W Cai Qiuyin Q Long Jirong J Smith Jeffrey R JR Signorello Lisa B LB Blot William J WJ Matthews Charles E CE
Obesity (Silver Spring, Md.) 20110127 10
Adiponectin is an adipose-secreted protein with influence on several physiologic pathways including those related to insulin sensitivity, inflammation, and atherogenesis. Adiponectin levels are highly heritable and several single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) in adiponectin-related genes (ADIPOQ, ADIPOR1, ADIPOR2) have been examined in relation to circulating adiponectin levels and obesity phenotypes, but despite differences in adiponectin levels and obesity prevalence by race, few studies hav ...[more]