Binge eating as a major phenotype of melanocortin 4 receptor gene mutations

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 348, Issue 12, 2003, Pages 1096-1103

  Branson, Ruth ^a   Potoczna, Natascha ^a   Kral, John G ^b   Lentes, Klaus Ulrich ^c   Hoehe, Margret R ^d   Horber, Fritz F ^a  

^a KLINIK HIRSLANDEN   (Switzerland)

^b SUNY DOWNSTATE MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c Bioscientia Center for Human Genetics   (Germany)

^d MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR MOLECULAR GENETICS   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALPHA INTERMEDIN; LEPTIN; LEPTIN RECEPTOR; MELANOCORTIN 4 RECEPTOR; PROOPIOMELANOCORTIN;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BINGE EATING DISORDER; BODY FAT; BODY MASS; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENERGY EXPENDITURE; FEMALE; GENE MUTATION; HEREDITY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIFACTORIAL INHERITANCE; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THERMOGENESIS; WEIGHT REDUCTION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE OF ONSET; AGED; ALPHA-MSH; BASAL METABOLISM; BODY COMPOSITION; BULIMIA; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; HETEROZYGOTE; HUMANS; LEPTIN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MUTATION; OBESITY; PHENOTYPE; RECEPTOR, MELANOCORTIN, TYPE 4; RECEPTORS, CELL SURFACE; RECEPTORS, CORTICOTROPIN;

EID: 0037456733     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJMoa021971     Document Type: Article

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