Research Article

Effect of Obesity-Linked FTO rs9939609 Variant on Physical Activity and Dietary Patterns in Physically Active Men and Women

Table 4

Eating behaviour in men and women carrying different risk variants of the FTO rs9939609 single nucleotide polymorphism.

CharacteristicFTO rs9939609 genotypeModel 1a: genotype value
AA (n = 95)AT (n = 236)TT (n = 197)

Cognitive restraint score13 (4)12 (4)11 (4)0.03
Disinhibition score6 (3)7 (4)6 (4)0.38
Hunger score5 (3)5 (4)5 (4)0.92

Values are mean (SD) for n = 528. Comparisons were made using linear mixed models adjusted for age and sex. ES, effect size. aModel 1: additive genotype model (AA versus AT versus TT). Significant difference between AA and TT FTO rs9939609 genotype (linear mixed model after Holm–Bonferroni correction).