Transmission disequilibrium and sequence variants at the leptin receptor gene in extremely obese German children and adolescents

Human Genetics

Volumn 103, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 540-546

  Roth, Helmut ^a,d   Korn, Tina ^a   Rosenkranz, Karen ^a   Hinney, Anke ^a   Ziegler, Andreas ^a   Kunz, Jürgen ^a   Siegfried, Wolfgang ^b   Mayer, Hermann ^c   Hebebrand, Johannes ^a   Grzeschik, Karl Heinz ^a  

^a PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

^b Children's Hospital Hochried   (Germany)

^c Obesity Treatment Center Insula   (Germany)

^d Andreas Bannowsky Ltd   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYTOKINE; LEPTIN RECEPTOR; MICROSATELLITE DNA;

ADIPOCYTE; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; BODY FAT; BRAIN; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; FAMILY STUDY; FEMALE; GENE MUTATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; HAPLOTYPE; HERITABILITY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MOLECULAR CLONING; OBESITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION;

ADOLESCENT; ALLELES; CARRIER PROTEINS; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; DNA PRIMERS; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; GERMANY; HAPLOTYPES; HUMANS; LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; MALE; MICROSATELLITE REPEATS; OBESITY; RECEPTORS, CELL SURFACE;

EID: 0031767007     PISSN: 03406717     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s004390050867     Document Type: Article

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