Testing of human homologues of murine obesity genes as candidate regions in Finnish obese sib pairs

European Journal of Human Genetics

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 117-124

  Öhman, Miina ^a   Oksanen, Laura ^b   Kainulainen, Katariina ^b   Jänne, Olli A ^c   Kaprio, Jaakko ^b   Koskenvuo, Markku ^d   Mustajoki, Pertti ^e   Kontula, Kimmo ^b   Peltonen, Leena ^a  

^a NATIONAL PUBLIC HEALTH INSTITUTE   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TURKU   (Finland)

^e PEIJAS HOSPITAL   (Finland)

Author keywords

Finnish population; Genetics; Melanocortin 4 receptor; Obesity; Rodent homology regions; Sib pairs

Indexed keywords

UNCOUPLING PROTEIN;

ALLELE; ARTICLE; DNA FLANKING REGION; FINLAND; GENE LOCUS; GENE MUTATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC SCREENING; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MARKER GENE; OBESITY; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

AGOUTI; MURINAE; RODENTIA;

EID: 0032986850     PISSN: 10184813     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/sj.ejhg.5200256     Document Type: Article

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