Gene expression of abdominal fat samples in 825 individuals were analyzed with the Illumina Human HT-12 V3 (Illumina, Inc., San Diego, CA, USA) for the Muther study, as described previously.29 (link) In all, 586 individuals were analyzed for expression association with the top metabolite using a random intercept linear regression including age, BMI, metabolite batch, expression batch and family relatedness.
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