Molecular scanning for mutations in the melanocortin-4 receptor gene in obese/diabetic Japanese

Annals of Human Genetics

Volumn 63, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 483-487

  Ohshiro, Y ^a   Sanke, T ^a   Ueda, K ^a   Shimajiri, Y ^a   Nakagawa, T ^a   Tsunoda, K ^a   Nishi, M ^a   Sasaki, H ^a   Takasu, N ^b   Nanjo, Kishio ^a  

^a WAKAYAMA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THE RYUKYUS   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA; MELANOCORTIN RECEPTOR;

ARTICLE; DIABETES MELLITUS; DNA SEQUENCE; FEMALE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE MUTATION; HETEROZYGOTE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; JAPAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OBESITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECEPTOR GENE;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CODON; DIABETES MELLITUS, TYPE 2; DNA MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; DNA PRIMERS; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; INSULIN RESISTANCE; JAPAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MUTATION; OBESITY, MORBID; RECEPTOR, MELANOCORTIN, TYPE 4; RECEPTORS, CORTICOTROPIN;

RODENTIA;

EID: 0033495921     PISSN: 00034800     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0003480099007782     Document Type: Article

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