Linkage and linkage disequilibrium mapping of genes influencing human obesity in chromosome region 7q22.1-7q35

Diabetes

Volumn 52, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 1557-1561

  Li, Wei Dong ^a   Li, Ding ^a   Wang, Shuang ^b   Zhang, Shuanghn ^b,c   Zhao, Hongyu ^b   Price, R Arlen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c MICHIGAN TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LEPTIN;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CHROMOSOMAL LOCALIZATION; CHROMOSOME 7Q; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENE LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; GENE MAPPING; GENE MUTATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MICROSATELLITE MARKER; NONPARAMETRIC TEST; OBESITY; PEDIGREE ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; QUANTITATIVE ASSAY; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, PAIR 7; FAMILY; FEMALE; GENETIC MARKERS; HUMANS; LEPTIN; LINKAGE (GENETICS); LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; MALE; MICROSATELLITE REPEATS; MIDDLE AGED; OBESITY; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; REFERENCE VALUES; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

EID: 0037645695     PISSN: 00121797     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2337/diabetes.52.6.1557     Document Type: Article

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