Relationship between adiposity and admixture in African-American and Hispanic-American women.

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Published in Int J Obes (Lond) on April 12, 2011

Authors

R Nassir1, L Qi, R Kosoy, L Garcia, M Allison, H M Ochs-Balcom, F Tylavsky, J E Manson, R Shigeta, J Robbins, M F Seldin

Author Affiliations

1: Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Medicine, University of California, Davis, Davis, CA 95616, USA.

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