Familiar aggregation of obesity, candidate genes and quantitative trait loci

Current Opinion in Lipidology

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 205-211

  Chagnon, Yvon C ^a   Pérusse, Louis ^a   Bouchard, Claude ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BETA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR; GLUCOCORTICOID RECEPTOR; INSULIN RECEPTOR; LEPTIN; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; UNCOUPLING PROTEIN; AGOUTI PROTEIN; BETA 3 ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR; CARRIER PROTEIN; CELL SURFACE RECEPTOR; INSULIN RECEPTOR SUBSTRATE 1 PROTEIN; INSULIN RECEPTOR SUBSTRATE-1 PROTEIN; ION CHANNEL; LEPTIN RECEPTOR; MITOCHONDRIAL PROTEIN; MITOCHONDRIAL UNCOUPLING PROTEIN; PHOSPHOPROTEIN; PROTEIN; SIGNAL PEPTIDE; TUB PROTEIN, MOUSE;

BODY FAT; BODY MASS; BODY WEIGHT; CHROMOSOME; FEMALE; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC LINKAGE; GENETIC RISK; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; LEAN BODY WEIGHT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OBESITY; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT; RECEPTOR GENE; REVIEW; ANIMAL; GENETICS;

RODENTIA;

ANIMALS; BODY MASS INDEX; CARRIER PROTEINS; HUMANS; INTERCELLULAR SIGNALING PEPTIDES AND PROTEINS; ION CHANNELS; LEPTIN; LINKAGE (GENETICS); MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MITOCHONDRIAL PROTEINS; OBESITY; PHENOTYPE; PHOSPHOPROTEINS; PROTEINS; RECEPTORS, ADRENERGIC, BETA; RECEPTORS, ADRENERGIC, BETA-3; RECEPTORS, CELL SURFACE; RECEPTORS, GLUCOCORTICOID;

EID: 0030610680     PISSN: 09579672     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00041433-199708000-00003     Document Type: Review

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