Melanocortin-4 Receptor Gene Variant I103 Is Negatively Associated with Obesity

American Journal of Human Genetics

Volumn 74, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 572-581

  Geller, Frank ^a   Reichwald, Kathrin ^b   Dempfle, Astrid ^a   Illig, Thomas ^c   Vollmert, Caren ^c   Herpertz, Stephan ^d   Siffert, Winfried ^e   Platzer, Matthias ^b   Hess, Claudia ^a   Gudermann, Thomas ^a   Biebermann, Heike ^f   Wichmann, H Erich ^c   Schäfer, Helmut ^a   Hinney, Anke ^a   Hebebrand, Johannes ^a  

^a PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

^b FRITZ LIPMANN INSTITUTE   (Germany)

^c INSTITUTE OF EPIDEMIOLOGY   (Germany)

^d RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

^e UNIVERSITY OF DUISBURG ESSEN   (Germany)

^f HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MELANOCORTIN 4 RECEPTOR;

ALLELE; ARTICLE; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CHROMOSOME LOSS; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; GENE LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; GENE MUTATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HAPLOTYPE; HUMAN; IN VITRO STUDY; MC4R GENE; META ANALYSIS; MISSENSE MUTATION; MISSENSE VARIANT V103I; OBESITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECEPTOR GENE; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; WILD TYPE;

UNIDENTIFIED AGENTS;

EID: 12144289073     PISSN: 00029297     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/382490     Document Type: Article

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