Profound obesity associated with a balanced translocation that disrupts the SIM1 gene

Human Molecular Genetics

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 101-108

  Holder Jr , J Lloyd ^b   Butte, Nancy F ^a   Zinn, Andrew R ^b  

^a BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CHILD; CHROMOSOME 1P; CHROMOSOME 6Q; CHROMOSOME TRANSLOCATION; DNA SEQUENCE; ENERGY EXPENDITURE; GENE DISRUPTION; HUMAN; MOLECULAR CLONING; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OBESITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION;

AGE OF ONSET; BASIC HELIX-LOOP-HELIX TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CHROMOSOMES, BACTERIAL; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, PAIR 1; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, PAIR 6; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DATABASES, FACTUAL; FEMALE; HELIX-LOOP-HELIX MOTIFS; HUMANS; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION, FLUORESCENCE; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MUTATION; OBESITY; PREGNANCY; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; TRANSLOCATION, GENETIC;

EID: 0034016043     PISSN: 09646906     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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