The FTO genetic variants are associated with dietary intake and body mass index amongst Emirati population

• Maha Saber-Ayad ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Supervision, Visualization, Writing – original draft

  * E-mail: msaber@sharjah.ac.ae (MS); rhamoudi@sharjah.ac.ae (RH)

  Affiliations College of Medicine, University of Sharjah, Sharjah, UAE, Research Institute for Medical and Health Sciences, University of Sharjah, Sharjah, UAE, College of Medicine, Cairo University, Cairo, Egypt

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9287-7621

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• Shaista Manzoor,

  Roles Methodology, Validation

  Affiliations College of Medicine, University of Sharjah, Sharjah, UAE, Research Institute for Medical and Health Sciences, University of Sharjah, Sharjah, UAE

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• Hadia Radwan,

  Roles Data curation, Software, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations College of Medicine, University of Sharjah, Sharjah, UAE, Research Institute for Medical and Health Sciences, University of Sharjah, Sharjah, UAE, Clinical Nutrition and Dietetics Department, College of Health Sciences, University of Sharjah, Sharjah, UAE

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3930-2554

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• Sarah Hammoudeh,

  Roles Methodology, Validation, Visualization

  Affiliations College of Medicine, University of Sharjah, Sharjah, UAE, Research Institute for Medical and Health Sciences, University of Sharjah, Sharjah, UAE

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• Rahaf Wardeh,

  Roles Investigation, Project administration

  Affiliation College of Medicine, University of Sharjah, Sharjah, UAE

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• Ahmed Ashraf,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Visualization

  Affiliation College of Medicine, University of Sharjah, Sharjah, UAE

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• Hussein Jabbar,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology

  Affiliation College of Medicine, University of Sharjah, Sharjah, UAE

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• Rifat Hamoudi

  Roles Formal analysis, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: msaber@sharjah.ac.ae (MS); rhamoudi@sharjah.ac.ae (RH)

  Affiliations College of Medicine, University of Sharjah, Sharjah, UAE, Research Institute for Medical and Health Sciences, University of Sharjah, Sharjah, UAE

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