Severe early-onset obesity, adrenal insufficiency and red hair pigmentation caused by POMC mutations in humans

Nature Genetics

Volumn 19, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 155-157

  Krude, Heiko ^a   Biebermann, Heike ^a   Luck, Werner ^a   Horn, Rüdiger ^b   Brabant, Georg ^b   Grüters, Annette ^a  

^a HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b HANNOVER MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADRENAL INSUFFICIENCY; ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME 2; GENE LOCATION; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC LINKAGE; HAIR COLOR; HUMAN; OBESITY; ONSET AGE; PATHOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0031838353     PISSN: 10614036     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/509     Document Type: Article

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