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SUBMITTER: Zhou Q
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5624167 | biostudies-literature | 2017
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Zhou Qiong Q Zhu Xiao-Juan XJ Li Jiang-Hua JH
BioMed research international 20170918
Some reports have shown that nicotinamide N-methyltransferase (NNMT) is associated with the body mass index (BMI) and energy metabolism. Here we explored the association between <i>NNMT</i> gene polymorphisms and obesity. The subjects were recruited from male Chinese Han college student. 289 of them (19 ≤ body fat percentage (BF%)) were selected as the high body fat group (HBFG), 494 of them (3 ≤ BF% < 13.5) were selected as the low body fat group (LBFG), and then a case-control study (fat versu ...[more]