In Caucasoid and Indian populations, the UCP3 -55(rs1800849) T allele was associated with abdominal obesity (Cassel et al., 2000; Herrmann et al., 2003),meanwhile in Asian population the C allele present in theCGTACC haplotype was associated with this condition (Cha et al., 2007). Here, UCP3 is linked to Abdominal obesity.