The new obesity genes

Nutrition Reviews

Volumn 54, Issue 2 I, 1996, Pages 41-49

  Roberts, Susan B ^a   Greenberg, Andrew S ^a  

^a TUFTS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GENETICS; HUMAN; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUTRITION; OBESITY; REVIEW;

ANIMALIA; STEATOMYS PRATENSIS;

EID: 0029949757     PISSN: 00296643     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1753-4887.1996.tb03855.x     Document Type: Review

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