The Human MC4R Promoter: Characterization and Role in Obesity

Diabetes

Volumn 52, Issue 12, 2003, Pages 2996-3000

  Lubrano Berthelier, Cecile ^a   Cavazos, Martha ^a   Le Stunff, Catherine ^b   Haas, Kurt ^a   Shapiro, Astrid ^a   Zhang, Sumei ^a   Bougnerës, Pierre ^b   Vaisse, Christian ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b HÔPITAL SAINT VINCENT DE PAUL   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MELANOCORTIN 4 RECEPTOR;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; EVALUATION; FETUS; GENE MUTATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC TRAIT; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; OBESITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION;

ADULT; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CHILD; COHORT STUDIES; HUMANS; MICE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; OBESITY; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); RECEPTOR, MELANOCORTIN, TYPE 4; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION SITE; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; VARIATION (GENETICS);

EID: 0344412890     PISSN: 00121797     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2337/diabetes.52.12.2996     Document Type: Article

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