Genome scan for childhood and adolescent obesity in German families

Pediatrics

Volumn 111, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 321-327

  Saar, Kathrin ^a,b   Geller, Frank ^c   Rüschendorf, Franz ^a   Reis, André ^a,d   Friedel, Susann ^c   Schäuble, Nadine ^c   Nürnberg, Peter ^a   Siegfried, Wolfgang ^e   Goldschmidt, Hans Peter ^f   Schäfer, Helmut ^c   Ziegler, Andreas ^g   Remschmidt, Helmut ^d   Hinney, Anke ^d   Hebebrand, Johannes ^c,d  

^a MAX DELBRÜCK CENTER FOR MOLECULAR MEDICINE   (Germany)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR MOLECULAR GENETICS   (Germany)

^c PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

^e Obesity Treatment Center Insula   (Germany)

^f Obesity Treatment Center Insula ^*  (Germany)

^g UNIVERSITY OF LÜBECK   (Germany)

Author keywords

BMI; Body weight; Linkage analysis

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENCE; ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CHILD; CHROMOSOMAL LOCALIZATION; FEMALE; GENETIC LINKAGE; GENETIC MARKER; GENOME; GENOTYPE; GERMANY; HERITABILITY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD METHOD; OBESITY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BODY MASS INDEX; BODY WEIGHT; CHILD; FEMALE; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; GENETIC SCREENING; GENOME, HUMAN; GERMANY; HUMANS; LOD SCORE; MALE; MICROSATELLITE REPEATS; MIDDLE AGED; NUCLEAR FAMILY; OBESITY;

EID: 0037313906     PISSN: 00314005     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1542/peds.111.2.321     Document Type: Article

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