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Cardiovascular Diabetology BioMed Central Original investigation Open Access Association between the FTO rs9939609 polymorphism and the metabolic syndrome in a non-Caucasian multi-ethnic sample 1 1 1 2 Salam A Al-Attar , Rebecca L Pollex , Matthew R Ban , T Kue Young , 3 4 4 5 Peter Bjerregaard , Sonia S Anand , Salim Yusuf , Bernard Zinman , 6 5,7 8 Stewart B Harris , Anthony JG Hanley , Philip W Connelly , Murray W Huff1,9 and Robert A Hegele* 1,9 1 2 Address: Vascular Biology Research Group, Robarts Research Institute, London, Ontario, Canada, Department of Public Health Sciences, University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada, 3National Institute of Public Health, Copenhagen, Denmark, 4Population Health Research Institute, McMaster University, Hamilton Health Sciences, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, 5Department of Medicine, University of Toronto, and Samuel Lunenfeld Research Institute, Mount Sinai Hospital, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, 6Thames Valley Family Practice Research Unit, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada, 7Department of Nutritional Sciences, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, 8Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathobiology, University of Toronto, and the Keenan Research Centre, Li Ka Shing Knowledge Institute, St. Michaels Hos