Clinical Study

Rs9939609 Variant of the Fat Mass and Obesity-Associated Gene and Trunk Obesity in Adolescents

Table 2

Occurrence of the rs9939609 FTO gene polymorphism within the experimental groups.

FTO rs9939609 genotypesNormal weight adolescents ( )Obese adolescents ( ) value

TT31 (30.1%)75 (27.9%)
TA56 (54.3%)118 (44.0%)
AA16 (15.5%)75 (27.9%).015 (AA versus TT&TA)
A allele frequency0.4270.500.075