Tumor necrosis factor-α-238 and -308 polymorphisms do not associate with traits related to obesity and insulin resistance

Diabetes

Volumn 48, Issue 10, 1999, Pages 2096-2098

  Walston, Jeremy ^a,b   Seibert, Michael ^a   Yen, Chung Jen ^a   Cheskin, Lawrence J ^a   Andersen, Ross E ^a  

^a DEPARTMENT OF PATHOLOGY   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYTOKINE; LEPTIN; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA;

ADULT; AGED; ALLELE; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CYTOKINE RELEASE; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; DNA POLYMORPHISM; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INSULIN RESISTANCE; MALE; OBESITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION;

ADULT; ALLELES; BODY MASS INDEX; FEMALE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; INSULIN RESISTANCE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OBESITY; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT, HERITABLE; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR-ALPHA;

EID: 0032883252     PISSN: 00121797     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2337/diabetes.48.10.2096     Document Type: Article

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