Minireview: Human obesity - Lessons from monogenic disorders

Endocrinology

Volumn 144, Issue 9, 2003, Pages 3757-3764

  O'Rahilly, Stephen ^a   Sadaf Farooqi, I ^a   Yeo, Giles S H ^a   Challis, Benjamin G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOPTION; APPETITE; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FOOD CONTROL; GENETIC IDENTIFICATION; HEREDITY; HUMAN; HUMAN GENETICS; MISSENSE MUTATION; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MONOGENIC DISORDER; OBESITY; ONSET AGE; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGULATORY MECHANISM; SHORT SURVEY; GENETICS; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; REVIEW;

CORTICOTROPIN RECEPTOR; FURIN; LEPTIN; MELANOCORTIN 4 RECEPTOR; PROOPIOMELANOCORTIN; SUBTILISIN;

FURIN; HUMANS; LEPTIN; OBESITY; PRO-OPIOMELANOCORTIN; RECEPTOR, MELANOCORTIN, TYPE 4; RECEPTORS, CORTICOTROPIN; SUBTILISINS;

EID: 0042831307     PISSN: 00137227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1210/en.2003-0373     Document Type: Short Survey

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