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Table 1 Clinical characteristics of cases/controls and discordant sister pairs

From: FTO gene SNPs associated with extreme obesity in cases, controls and extremely discordant sister pairs

 

N

Minimum

Maximum

Mean

Std. Deviation

Controls

     

Age

544

16

65

42.63

8.75

BMI

544

15.99

24.93

20.77

1.79

% Fat

534

7.50

40.00

23.65

5.61

Cases

     

Age

583

18

64

41.05

9.42

BMI

583

35.08

96.95

49.41

8.81

% Fat

529

30.70

70.70

50.01

5.92

Onset Age

462

0.1

55

13.90

9.01

Thin Sisters

     

Age

99

14

56

37.61

9.10

BMI

99

17.01

24.90

21.80

1.88

% Fat

81

15.10

38.40

26.41

5.58

Obese Sisters

     

Age

99

17

65

39.55

9.27

BMI

99

35.08

71.35

47.46

8.10

% Fat

89

37.00

58.90

49.36

5.18

Onset Age

78

1

42

14.04

8.10

Differences (Obese-Thin)

     

Age

99

-19.00

18.00

1.94

6.39

BMI

99

13.14

50.26

25.65

8.27

% Fat

79

6.30

40.20

23.33

7.41