Letter to the Editor: Genetic Contributions to Childhood Obesity: Association of Candidate Gene Polymorphisms and Overweight/Obesity in Korean Preschool Children | Zendy

Mostafa Saadat | Zendy

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Letter to the Editor: Genetic Contributions to Childhood Obesity: Association of Candidate Gene Polymorphisms and Overweight/Obesity in Korean Preschool Children

Author(s) -

Mostafa Saadat

Publication year - 2018

Publication title -

journal of korean medical science

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.743

H-Index - 66

eISSN - 1598-6357

pISSN - 1011-8934

DOI - 10.3346/jkms.2018.33.e68

Subject(s) - obesity , overweight , association (psychology) , childhood obesity , candidate gene , medicine , genetics , genetic association , bioinformatics , gene , genotype , biology , single nucleotide polymorphism , psychology , psychotherapist

I have read with interest the study by Yoo et al.,1 on the “Genetic Contributions to Childhood Obesity: Association of Candidate Gene Polymorphisms and Overweight/Obesity in Korean Preschool Children.” The authors reported that their data suggest that overweight children exhibited a higher frequency of the A allele in the AT2 C3123A polymorphism compared to the controls (odds ratio [OR], 1.72; 95% confidence interval [CI], 1.03–2.88; P = 0.038), and the frequency of C allele in the transforming growth factor beta-1 (TGF-β1, OMIM: 190180) T869C polymorphism (OR, 1.93; 95% CI, 1.15–3.21; P = 0.010) was also higher in obese or overweight children than in control subjects.1

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