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

Table 4

Clinical parameters and the rs9939609 FTO gene polymorphism within all experimental groups.

	Obese adolescents			Normal weight adolescents
Mean + 1 SD	Wildtype; 𝑛=75	Heterozygot; 𝑛=118	Homozygote; 𝑛=75	Wildtype; 𝑛=31	Heterozygote; 𝑛=56	Homozygote; 𝑛=16
Body weight (kg)	72.1±23.3	77.8±27.7	77.9±25.7	51.1±12.7	54.8±13.9	56.8±13.5
BMI (kg/m^2)	29.3±6.1	30.3±6.3	30.6±6.1	19.5±2.8	20.2±2.8	20.3±3.3
BMI-SDS	5.9±2.6	6.0±2.6	6.2±2.9	0.17±0.9	0.4±1.0	0.2±1.0
Waist circumference (cm)	89.9±14.8	92.2±15.8	92.7±11.8	67.9±5.8	70.8±6.3	71.6±7.4
Hip circumference (cm)	102.8±15.8	106.4±16.5	106.7±16.4	87.6±8.9	88.5±8.9	92.6±11.1
SAT-T, neck (cm)	14.3.±5.7	15.4±6.4	15.6±5.1	5.3±4.5	5.9±4.5	5.6±3.6
SAT-T, front chest (cm)	19.9.±7.4	20.8±8.1	22.3±9.4	5.4±4.5	7.5±5.4	8.2±7.1

BMI: body mass index.
BMI-SDS: body mass index standard deviation score.