No evidence for involvement of the leptin gene in anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa, underweight or early onset extreme obesity: Identification of two novel mutations in the coding sequence and a novel polymorphism in the leptin gene linked upstream region

Molecular Psychiatry

Volumn 3, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 539-543

  Hinney, A ^a,j   Bornscheuer, A ^b   Depenbusch, M ^c   Mierke, B ^d   Tolle, A ^e   Middeke, K ^f   Ziegler, A ^g   Roth, H ^h   Gerber, G ^h   Zamzow, K ^h   Ballauff, A ⁱ   Hamann, A ^h   Mayer, H ^b   Siegfried, W ^c   Lehmkuhl, G ^d   Poustka, F ^e   Schmidt, M H ^f   Hermann, H ^g   Herpertz Dahlmann, B M ^h   Fichter, M ^h   Remschmidt, H ^h   Hebebrand, J ⁱ   more..

^a Clinical Research Group   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

^c PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER HAMBURG EPPENDORF   (Germany)

^e Children's Hospital Hochried   (Germany)

^f Obesity Treatment Center Insula   (Germany)

^g Universities of Aachen   (Germany)

^h Klinik Roseneck ^*  (Germany)

ⁱ Klinik Roseneck   (Germany)

^j Clinical Research Group   (Germany)

more..

Author keywords

Childhood and adolescent obesity; Eating disorders; Mutation analysis; Obese gene; Transmission disequilibrium

Indexed keywords

LEPTIN;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANOREXIA NERVOSA; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; BULIMIA; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA DETERMINATION; DNA FLANKING REGION; FEMALE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; HETEROZYGOSITY; HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OBESITY; ONSET AGE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SINGLE STRAND CONFORMATION POLYMORPHISM;

ADOLESCENT; AGE OF ONSET; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ANOREXIA NERVOSA; BODY MASS INDEX; BODY WEIGHT; BULIMIA; CHILD; GENE FREQUENCY; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; LEPTIN; LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; NUCLEAR FAMILY; OBESITY; POINT MUTATION; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE-STRANDED CONFORMATIONAL; PROTEINS; REFERENCE VALUES; REGULATORY SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; THINNESS;

EID: 0031766048     PISSN: 13594184     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/sj.mp.4000394     Document Type: Article

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