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Acknowledgments

This study was supported by NIH grants R01 HL073882 and R01 AR45651. Elissa Wilker was supported by NIEHS training grant T32 ES 07069.

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1. Program for Population Genetics, Harvard School of Public Health, 665 Huntington Ave., FXB-101, Boston, MA, 02115, USA
   Yan Feng, Elissa Wilker, Yan Zhang & Xin Xu
2. Anhui Institute of Biomedicine, Anhui Medical University, Hefei, Anhui, China
   Hongxing Dong & Qingyun Xiang
3. School of Life Science, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui, China
   Xiumei Hong
4. Center for Population Genetics, School of Public Health, University of Illinois, Chicago, IL, USA
   Xiumei Hong & Xiping Xu

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Feng, Y., Dong, H., Xiang, Q. et al. Lack of association between rs7566605 and obesity in a Chinese population.Hum Genet 120, 743–745 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00439-006-0258-2

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• Received: 31 July 2006
• Accepted: 31 August 2006
• Published: 21 September 2006
• Issue Date: January 2007
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00439-006-0258-2

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