Biogeographic Ancestry Is Associated with Higher Total Body Adiposity among African-American Females: The Boston Area Community Health Survey

• Sunali D. Goonesekera ,

  * E-mail: sgoonesekera@neriscience.com

  Affiliation Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, New England Research Institutes, 480 Pleasant St., Watertown, MA 02472, United States of America

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• Shona C. Fang,

  Affiliations Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, New England Research Institutes, 480 Pleasant St., Watertown, MA 02472, United States of America, Department of Environmental Health, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA 02115, United States of America

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• Rebecca S. Piccolo,

  Affiliation Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, New England Research Institutes, 480 Pleasant St., Watertown, MA 02472, United States of America

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• Jose C. Florez,

  Affiliation Diabetes Unit/ Center for Human Genetic Research, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA 02114, United States of America

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• John B. McKinlay

  Affiliation Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, New England Research Institutes, 480 Pleasant St., Watertown, MA 02472, United States of America

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