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Sex-Limited Genome-Wide Linkage Scan for Body Mass Index in an Unselected Sample of 933 Australian T...

Sex-Limited Genome-Wide Linkage Scan for Body Mass Index in an Unselected Sample of 933 Australian T...

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Sex-Limited Genome-Wide Linkage Scan for Body Mass Index in an Unselected Sample of 933 Australian Twin Families

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Sex-Limited Genome-Wide Linkage Scan for Body Mass Index in an Unselected Sample of 933 Australian Twin Families

Publisher

Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press

Journal title

Twin research and human genetics, 2005-12, Vol.8 (6), p.616-632

Language

English

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Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press

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Scope and Contents

Contents

Genes involved in pathways regulating body weight may operate differently in men and women. To determine whether sex-limited genes influence the obesity-related phenotype body mass index (BMI), we have conducted a general non- scalar sex-limited genome-wide linkage scan using variance components analysis in Mx (Neale, 2002). BMI measurements and ge...

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Sex-Limited Genome-Wide Linkage Scan for Body Mass Index in an Unselected Sample of 933 Australian Twin Families

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TN_cdi_proquest_miscellaneous_68911089

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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/TN_cdi_proquest_miscellaneous_68911089

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ISSN

1832-4274

E-ISSN

1839-2628

DOI

10.1375/twin.8.6.616

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