No evidence for involvement of the promoter polymorphism - 866 G/A of the UCP2 gene in childhood-onset obesity in humans

Experimental and Clinical Endocrinology and Diabetes

Volumn 111, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 73-76

  Schauble N ^a   Geller, F ^a   Siegfried, W ^b   Goldschmidt, H ^c   Remschmidt, H ^a   Hinney, Anke ^a,d   Hebebrand, J ^a  

^a PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

^b Obesity Treatment Centre Insula   (Germany)

^c Spessart Clinic   (Germany)

^d Klin Psychiat/Psychother K /J   (Germany)

Author keywords

Early onset obesity; Percentiles

Indexed keywords

UNCOUPLING PROTEIN 2;

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA POLYMORPHISM; FEMALE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OBESITY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM;

ADOLESCENT; ALLELES; BASE SEQUENCE; BODY MASS INDEX; CHILD; DNA PRIMERS; FEMALE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; ION CHANNELS; MALE; MEMBRANE TRANSPORT PROTEINS; MITOCHONDRIAL PROTEINS; OBESITY; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS);

EID: 0242684460     PISSN: 09477349     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1055/s-2003-39232     Document Type: Article

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