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Obesity and adiposity have opposing genetic impacts on human blood traits
Christopher S. Thom, Madison B Wilken, Stella T Chou, Benjamin F. Voight
This study uses Mendelian randomization to show that obesity and truncal adiposity have opposing genetic effects on blood traits, with BMI reducing hemoglobin and hematocrit while truncal adiposity increases them.
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