Obesity susceptibility loci in Qataris, a highly consanguineous Arabian population

Sara Tomei,Ravinder Mamtani,Rashid Al Ali,Naser Elkum,Maryam Abdulmalik,Awatef Ismail,Sohaila Cheema,Hekmat A Rouh,Idil I. Aigha,Fatima Hani,Sura Al-Samraye,Mona Taher Aseel,Nada El Emadi,Azza Al-Mujalli,Ahmed Abdelkerim,Siddik Youssif,Andrea Worschech,Emad El Sebakhy,Ramzi Temanni,Vineesh Khanna,Ena Wang,Dhanya Kizhakayil,Al-Anood Al-Thani,Mohammed Al-Thani,Albert B. Lowenfels,Francesco M. Marincola,Javaid I. Sheikh,Lotfi Chouchane

Obesity susceptibility loci in Qataris, a highly consanguineous Arabian population

2015

Objectives In Qataris, a population characterized by a small size and a high rate of consanguinity, between two-thirds to three-quarters of adults are overweight or obese. We investigated the relevance of 23 obesity-related loci in the Qatari population.

Keywords:

Obesity
Genotyping
Consanguinity
Body mass index
Diabetes mellitus
Locus (genetics)
Overweight
Population
Genetics
Biology
Allele
Physiology
Immunology
Genotype

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