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SUBMITTER: Carlos FF
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3712741 | biostudies-literature | 2013
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Carlos Fábio Ferreira FF Silva-Nunes José J Flores Orfeu O Brito Miguel M Doria Gonçalo G Veiga Luísa L Baptista Pedro Viana PV
Diabetes, metabolic syndrome and obesity : targets and therapy 20130711
<h4>Purpose</h4>We evaluated the association between risk of obesity in the Portuguese population and two obesity-related single-nucleotide gene polymorphisms: fat-mass and obesity-associated (FTO) rs9939609 and peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor gamma (PPARG) rs1801282.<h4>Patients and methods</h4>A total of 194 Portuguese premenopausal female Caucasians aged between 18 and 50 years (95 with body mass index [BMI] ≥30 g/m(2), 99 controls with BMI 18.5-24.9 kg/m(2)) participated in this s ...[more]