The human obesity gene map: The 2001 update

Obesity Research

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 196-243

  Rankinen, Tuomo ^a   Pérusse, Louis ^b   Weisnagel, S John ^b   Snyder, Eric E ^a   Chagnon, Yvon C ^c   Bouchard, Claude ^a  

^a PENNINGTON BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

^c Pennington Biomed Research Center ^*

Author keywords

Association; Genes; Human obesity gene map; Linkages; Mendelian disorders; Quantitative trait loci

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA; RODENTIA;

ANIMAL; GENETIC LINKAGE; GENETICS; GENOME; HUMAN; MOUSE; MUTATION; OBESITY; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT; RAT; REVIEW;

ANIMALS; GENOME, HUMAN; HUMANS; LINKAGE (GENETICS); MICE; MUTATION; OBESITY; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT, HERITABLE; RATS;

EID: 0036512889     PISSN: 10717323     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/oby.2002.30     Document Type: Article

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