Word travels quickly in the small fishing village of Port Washington. So when Mardy McGarry wanted to build a playground for children with special needs, she knew it wouldn"t take long to bring up interest in the project. But she never expected that a third of the town would roll up the...
In my double profession as an educator and health care provider, I have worked with numerous children infected with the virus that causes AIDS.The relationships that I have had with these special kids have been gifts in my life.They have taught me so many things, but I have especially learn...
adiposity and cardiometabolic disease risk Yingchang Lu et al.# To increase our understanding of the genetic basis of adiposity and its links to cardiometa- bolic disease risk, we conducted a genome-wide association meta-analysis of body fat per- centage (BF%) in up to 100,716 individuals....
Large-scale meta-analyses of genome-wide association studies (GWAS) for adiposity traits and obesity risk have identified at least 160 loci that contribute to body weight and fat distribution in adults and children of diverse ancestry1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13,14,15,16,17,18,19,...