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SUBMITTER: Apalasamy YD
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3854209 | biostudies-literature | 2012 Dec
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Brazilian journal of medical and biological research = Revista brasileira de pesquisas medicas e biologicas 20120823 12
The common variants in the fat mass- and obesity-associated (FTO) gene have been previously found to be associated with obesity in various adult populations. The objective of the present study was to investigate whether the single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) and linkage disequilibrium (LD) blocks in various regions of the FTO gene are associated with predisposition to obesity in Malaysian Malays. Thirty-one FTO SNPs were genotyped in 587 (158 obese and 429 non-obese) Malaysian Malay subjects ...[more]