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SUBMITTER: Park SL
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3755639 | biostudies-literature | 2013 Sep
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Park Sungshim Lani SL Cheng Iona I Pendergrass Sarah A SA Kucharska-Newton Anna M AM Lim Unhee U Ambite Jose Luis JL Caberto Christian P CP Monroe Kristine R KR Schumacher Fredrick F Hindorff Lucia A LA Oetjens Matthew T MT Wilson Sarah S Goodloe Robert J RJ Love Shelly-Ann SA Henderson Brian E BE Kolonel Laurence N LN Haiman Christopher A CA Crawford Dana C DC North Kari E KE Heiss Gerardo G Ritchie Marylyn D MD Wilkens Lynne R LR Le Marchand Loïc L
American journal of epidemiology 20130702 5
Common obesity risk variants have been associated with macronutrient intake; however, these associations' generalizability across populations has not been demonstrated. We investigated the associations between 6 obesity risk variants in (or near) the NEGR1, TMEM18, BDNF, FTO, MC4R, and KCTD15 genes and macronutrient intake (carbohydrate, protein, ethanol, and fat) in 3 Population Architecture using Genomics and Epidemiology (PAGE) studies: the Multiethnic Cohort Study (1993-2006) (n = 19,529), t ...[more]