Genome-wide association for abdominal subcutaneous and visceral adipose reveals a novel locus for visceral fat in women.

Body fat distribution, particularly centralized obesity, is associated with metabolic risk above and beyond total adiposity. We performed genome-wide association of abdominal adipose depots quantified using computed tomography (CT) to uncover novel loci for body fat distribution among participants o...

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Auteurs principaux: Caroline S Fox, Yongmei Liu, Charles C White, Mary Feitosa, Albert V Smith, Nancy Heard-Costa, Kurt Lohman, GIANT Consortium, MAGIC Consortium, GLGC Consortium, Andrew D Johnson, Meredith C Foster, Danielle M Greenawalt, Paula Griffin, Jinghong Ding, Anne B Newman, Fran Tylavsky, Iva Miljkovic, Stephen B Kritchevsky, Lenore Launer, Melissa Garcia, Gudny Eiriksdottir, J Jeffrey Carr, Vilmunder Gudnason, Tamara B Harris, L Adrienne Cupples, Ingrid B Borecki
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Langue:EN
Publié: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2012
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Accès en ligne:https://doaj.org/article/4801b88842b6405eb1c277ac62c33f32
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