nutrients Article Candidate Gene and Genome-Wide Association Studies for Circulating Leptin Levels Reveal Population and Sex-Specific Associations in High Cardiovascular Risk Mediterranean Subjects 1,2, 2,3, 1,2 1,2 Carolina Ortega-Azorín y , Oscar Coltell y , Eva M. Asensio , Jose V. Sorlí , José I. González 1,2, Olga Portolés 1,2, Carmen Saiz 1,2, Ramon Estruch 2,4 , Judith B Ramírez-Sabio 5, Alejandro Pérez-Fidalgo 1,6, Jose M Ordovas 7,8,9 and Dolores Corella 1,2,* 1 Department of Preventive Medicine and Public Health, School of Medicine, University of Valencia, 46010 Valencia, Spain;
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