Signatures of natural selection at the FTO (fat mass and obesity associated) locus in human populations.

<h4>Background and aims</h4>Polymorphisms in the first intron of FTO have been robustly replicated for associations with obesity. In the Sorbs, a Slavic population resident in Germany, the strongest effect on body mass index (BMI) was found for a variant in the third intron of FTO (rs178...

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Main Authors: Xuanshi Liu, Kerstin Weidle, Kristin Schröck, Anke Tönjes, Dorit Schleinitz, Jana Breitfeld, Michael Stumvoll, Yvonne Böttcher, Torsten Schöneberg, Peter Kovacs
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2015-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article/file?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0117093&type=printable
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