Screening for coding variants in FTO and SH2B1 genes in Chinese patients with obesity.

To investigate potential functional variants in FTO and SH2B1 genes among Chinese children with obesity.Sanger sequencing of PCR products of all FTO and SH2B1 exons and their flanking regions were performed in 338 Chinese Han children with obesity and 221 age- and sex-matched lean controls.A total o...

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Main Authors: Zhaojing Zheng, Li Hong, Xiaodong Huang, Peirong Yang, Juan Li, Yu Ding, Ru-En Yao, Juan Geng, Yongnian Shen, Yiping Shen, Qihua Fu, Yongguo Yu
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2013-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3692548?pdf=render