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Martínez-Ezquerro JD, Rendón-Macías ME, Zamora G et al. Association between the BDNF Val66Met polymorphism and BMI in Mexican children [version 1; not peer reviewed]. F1000Research 2016, 5:2774 (poster) (https://doi.org/10.7490/f1000research.1113471.1)
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Association between the BDNF Val66Met polymorphism and BMI in Mexican children

José Darío Martínez-Ezquerro1, Mario Enrique Rendón-Macías, Gerardo Zamora, Jacobo Serrano-Meneses, Yessica Arellanos, Beatriz Rosales-Rodríguez, Deyanira Escalante-Bautista, Raúl Sánchez González, Maricela Rodríguez Cruz, Mardia López Alarcón, Elith Yazmin Valencia Villalvazo, Cecilia Zampedri, Haydeé Rosas-Vargas1
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Published 27 Nov 2016

Association between the BDNF Val66Met polymorphism and BMI in Mexican children

[version 1; not peer reviewed]

José Darío Martínez-Ezquerro1, Mario Enrique Rendón-Macías, Gerardo Zamora, Jacobo Serrano-Meneses, Yessica Arellanos, Beatriz Rosales-Rodríguez, Deyanira Escalante-Bautista, Raúl Sánchez González, Maricela Rodríguez Cruz, Mardia López Alarcón, Elith Yazmin Valencia Villalvazo, Cecilia Zampedri, Haydeé Rosas-Vargas1
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1 Unidad de Investigación Médica en Genética Humana (UIMGH), Centro Médico Nacional Siglo XXI, Instituto Mexicano del Seguro Social (IMSS), Mexico
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30th National Congress of Biochemistry, Mexican Society of Biochemistry (SMB) 2014
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Keywords
brain-derived neurotrophic factor, SNP, rs6265, overweight/obesity, BMI, children
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4 Comments
José Darío Martínez-Ezquerro
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27 Nov 2017
Your beliefs are incorrect. Contrary to the wishful thinking that when performing an experiment 100 times, 95 of the point estimates would lie in the CI, what the CI 95% means is that 95% of those CIs from the 100... READ MORE
Randolph Schilke
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14 Jul 2017
There is a basic statistical theory behind the OR that you do not seem to understand. You write "OR= 6.6, 95% CI= 0.8-53.5, p= 0.07)." This confidence interval includes 1, ergo the statistic is null, no association. If you performed... READ MORE
José Darío Martínez-Ezquerro
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20 Mar 2017
Hi Randolph,

To assess the possible association between our variables we employed chi-square test. As clearly shown, all chi-square tests are statistically signifiant, showing an association between nutritional status and genotypes(p=0.042)/alleles(p=0.037) with less than 5% chance of being do to chance.... READ MORE
Randolph Schilke
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28 Nov 2016
These results of all the ORs are not significant. Ergo, there isn't any statistical association. Please clarify about your statement on statistical association.

Best, 

Randolph Schilke
 
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