Evidence for a Role of LPGAT1 in Influencing BMI and Percent Body Fat in Native Americans
Obesity, 08/02/2012
Traurig MT et al. – In vitro functional studies provided suggestive evidence that this 27 bp deletion may affect transcriptional or posttranscriptional regulation. Analysis of lysophosphatidylglycerol acyltransferase 1 (LPGAT1) cDNA from human preadipocytes identified an additional exon whose sequence could potentially serve as a mitochondrial targeting peptide.



