Heritability of obesity-related traits among Nigerians, Jamaicans and US black people.

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Published in Int J Obes Relat Metab Disord on July 01, 2001

Authors

A Luke1, X Guo, A A Adeyemo, R Wilks, T Forrester, W Lowe , A G Comuzzie, L J Martin, X Zhu, C N Rotimi, R S Cooper

Author Affiliations

1: Department of Preventive Medicine and Epidemiology, Loyola University School of Medicine, Maywood, Illinois 60153, USA. aluke@luc.edu

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