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ABSTRACT:
SUBMITTER: Lan N
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7701174 | biostudies-literature | 2020
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Frontiers in genetics 20201116
In recent years, the prevalence of obesity and cancer have been rising. Since this poses a serious threat to human health, the relationship between the two has attracted much attention. This study examined whether fat mass and obesity-associated (<i>FTO</i>) genes are linked, taking into account a Genome-wide Association Study (GWAS) that revealed multiple single nucleotide polymorphism sites (SNPs) of the <i>FTO</i> gene, indicating an association between obesity and cancer in different populat ...[more]