Leptin receptor gene in a large cohort of massively obese subjects: No indication of the fa/fa rat mutation. Detection of an intronic variant with no association with obesity

Obesity Research

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 122-127

  Rolland, Violaine ^a  

^a INSERM   (France)

Author keywords

Association study; Fatty mutation; Leptin receptor; Obesity; Polymorphism

Indexed keywords

CARRIER PROTEIN; CELL SURFACE RECEPTOR; ENDODEOXYRIBONUCLEASE MAEII; GLUTAMINE; LEPTIN RECEPTOR; TYPE II SITE SPECIFIC DEOXYRIBONUCLEASE;

ADULT; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; DIABETES MELLITUS; EXON; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; INTRON; MIDDLE AGED; MORBID OBESITY; MUTATION; OBESITY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RAT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

ADULT; ANIMALS; CARRIER PROTEINS; DEOXYRIBONUCLEASES, TYPE II SITE-SPECIFIC; DIABETES MELLITUS; EXONS; GENOTYPE; GLUTAMINE; HUMANS; INTRONS; MIDDLE AGED; MUTATION; OBESITY; OBESITY, MORBID; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RATS; RECEPTORS, CELL SURFACE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

EID: 0032010818     PISSN: 10717323     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/j.1550-8528.1998.tb00325.x     Document Type: Article

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