A novel homozygous missence mutation of melanocortin-4 receptor (MC4R) in a Japanese woman with obesity

Diabetes

Volumn 51, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 243-246

  Kobayashi, Hiromasa ^a,b   Ogawa, Yoshihiro ^b   Shintani, Mitsuyo ^a   Ebihara, Ken ^b   Shimodahira, Makiko ^a   Iwakura, Toshio ^a   Hino, Megumu ^a   Ishihara, Takashi ^a   Ikekubo, Katsuji ^a   Kurahachi, Hiroyuki ^a   Nakao, Kazuwa ^a  

^a KOBE CITY MEDICAL CENTER GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^b KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYCLIC AMP; MELANOCORTIN 4 RECEPTOR; ALPHA INTERMEDIN; LEPTIN; RECEPTOR; RECOMBINANT PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; ASIAN; BIRTH WEIGHT; BODY MASS; CASE REPORT; FEMALE; GENE LOSS; GENETIC TRANSFECTION; HOMOZYGOSITY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; JAPAN; LIGAND BINDING; MISSENSE MUTATION; OBESITY; PARENT; PEDIGREE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; WEIGHT GAIN; ADULT; AGED; ALLELE; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BLOOD; CELL LINE; CODON; GENETICS; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL; HOMOZYGOTE; MALE; METABOLISM; MORBID OBESITY; REFERENCE VALUE;

ADULT; AGED; ALLELES; ALPHA-MSH; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BLOOD GLUCOSE; CASE REPORT; CELL LINE; CODON; FEMALE; HOMOZYGOTE; HUMAN; JAPAN; LEPTIN; MALE; MUTATION, MISSENSE; OBESITY, MORBID; PEDIGREE; RECEPTORS, PEPTIDE; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; REFERENCE VALUES; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T; TRANSFECTION;

EID: 0036094522     PISSN: 00121797     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2337/diabetes.51.1.243     Document Type: Article

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