Heritability and genetic correlations of obesity indices and cardiometabolic traits in the Northern Chinese families.

Binbin LinLi PanHuijing HeYaoda HuJi TuLing ZhangZe CuiXiaolan RenXianghua WangJing NaiGuangliang Shan

Published in: Annals of human genetics (2024)

The genetic overlap between various obesity indices and cardiometabolic traits underscores the importance of pleiotropic genes. Further studies are warranted to investigate specific shared genetic and environmental factors between obesity and cardiometabolic diseases.

Keyphrases

genome wide
insulin resistance
weight loss
metabolic syndrome
high fat diet induced
type diabetes
weight gain
dna methylation
copy number
adipose tissue
gene expression
transcription factor