Mutations in the preproghrelin/ghrelin gene associated with obesity in humans

Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism

Volumn 86, Issue 8, 2001, Pages 3996-3999

  Ukkola, Olavi ^a,b   Ravussin, Eric ^a   Jacobson, Peter ^a   Snyder, Eric E ^a   Chagnon, Monique ^a   Sjostrom, Lars ^c   Bouchard, Claude ^a  

^a PENNINGTON BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OULU   (Finland)

^c SAHLGRENSKA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GENE PRODUCT; GHRELIN; PREPROGHRELIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADULT; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENE MUTATION; GENE SEQUENCE; HETEROZYGOSITY; HOMOZYGOSITY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OBESITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SWEDEN;

ADULT; AGE OF ONSET; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; BODY MASS INDEX; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; HETEROZYGOTE DETECTION; HOMOZYGOTE; HUMANS; MORBIDITY; MUTATION; OBESITY; PEPTIDE HORMONES; PEPTIDES; POINT MUTATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROTEIN PRECURSORS; REFERENCE VALUES; SWEDEN;

EID: 0034880513     PISSN: 0021972X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1210/jc.86.8.3996     Document Type: Article

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