Genome wide association study: searching for genes underlying body mass index in the Chinese.

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Published in Biomed Environ Sci on May 01, 2014

Authors

Fang Yang1, Xiang Ding Chen2, Li Jun Tan2, Jie Shen3, Ding You Li4, Fang Zhang2, Bao Yong Sha2, Hong Wen Deng5

Author Affiliations

1: Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Central South University, Changsha 410078, Hunan, China.
2: Laboratory of Molecular and Statistical Genetics, College of Life Sciences, Hunan Normal University, Changsha 410081, Hunan, China.
3: Department of Endocrinology, The Third Affiliated Hospital of Southern Medical University, Guangzhou 510630, Guangdong, China.
4: Department of Pediatrics, University of Missouri Kansas City School of Medicine, Division of Gastroenterology, Children's Mercy Hospital, Kansas City, Missouri 64108, USA.
5: Laboratory of Molecular and Statistical Genetics, College of Life Sciences, Hunan Normal University, Changsha 410081, Hunan, China; Systematic Biomedicine Research Center, University of Shanghai for Science and Technology, Shanghai 200093, China; Center for Bioinformatics and Genomics, Department of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics, Tulane University, New Orleans, LA 70112, USA.

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