Obesity, Genetics and the Environment

Main|Search|PHGKB

From CDC-Authored Genomics Publication Database

This database contains CDC-authored publications in public health genomics including infectious diseases, newborn screening, reproductive health, genetic testing, cancer, chronic diseases, birth defects and developmental disabilities, environmental and occupational health as well as laboratory, bioinformatics and statistical methods.

---

• Relationships between selected gene polymorphisms and blood pressure sensitivity to weight loss in elderly persons with hypertension.  
   Kostis William J et al. Hypertension 2013 Apr 61(4) 857-63
• Proportion of neural tube defects attributable to known risk factors.  
   Agopian A J et al. Birth Defects Res. Part A Clin. Mol. Teratol. 2013 Jan 97(1) 42-6
• The association of variants in the FTO gene with longitudinal body mass index profiles in non-Hispanic white children and adolescents.  
   Hallman D M et al. Int J Obes (Lond) 2012 Jan 36(1) 61-8
• Beta-diversity metrics of the upper digestive tract microbiome are associated with body mass index.  
   Lin Shih-Wen et al. Obesity (Silver Spring) 2015 Apr (4) 862-9

more