Austronesian-speaking people in Papua New Guinea have susceptibility to obesity and type 2 diabetes [8]

Diabetes Care

Volumn 26, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 955-956

  Sakaue, Motoyoshi ^a,b   Fuke, Yoko ^a   Katsuyama, Toshie ^a   Kawabata, Masato ^a   Taniguchi, Hiroshi ^a  

^a KOBE UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HYOGO   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALANINE; AMINO ACID; BETA 3 ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR; PEROXISOME PROLIFERATOR ACTIVATED RECEPTOR GAMMA; PROLINE;

AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; BODY MASS; DIABETES MELLITUS; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; FAMILY HISTORY; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; LETTER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NON INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; OBESITY; PAPUA NEW GUINEA; PREVALENCE;

EID: 0042667151     PISSN: 01495992     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2337/diacare.26.3.955-a     Document Type: Letter

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