Anthropometry, carbohydrate and lipid metabolism in the East Flanders Prospective Twin Survey: heritabilities
Open Access
- 11 August 2007
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Springer Science and Business Media LLC in Diabetologia
- Vol. 50 (10), 2107-2116
- https://doi.org/10.1007/s00125-007-0784-z
Abstract
We determined the genetic contribution of 18 anthropometric and metabolic risk factors of type 2 diabetes using a young healthy twin population.This publication has 55 references indexed in Scilit:
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