Are Associated with Childhood Obesity in a Cross-Sectional Study of 3,126 Urban Indian Children

variants with adiposity in adult Indian, its association in Indian children is yet to be confirmed. variants (rs9939609 and rs8050136) with obesity and related anthropometric and biochemical traits in 3,126 Indian children (aged 11–17 years) including 2,230 normal-weight and 896 over-weight/obese children. We also compared effects observed in the present study with that observed in previous studies on South Asian adults and children of other ethnic groups. = 0.97) and provided similar association results. in hypothalamic-pituitary-thyroid axis