Interaction between obesity-susceptibility loci in chromosome regions 2p25-p24 and 13q13-q21

European Journal of Human Genetics

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 102-108

  Dong, Chuanhui ^a   Li, Wei Dong ^a   Li, Ding ^a   Price, R Arlen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Correlation; Interaction; Linkage; Obesity; Regression; Variance components

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BODY FAT; BODY MASS; CHROMOSOME 13Q; CHROMOSOME 2P; DISEASE RESISTANCE; EUROPEAN AMERICAN; FAMILY; GENE INTERACTION; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; GENOME; HUMAN; OBESITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL; VARIANCE; WAIST CIRCUMFERENCE;

BODY MASS INDEX; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, PAIR 13; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, PAIR 2; DISEASE SUSCEPTIBILITY; EPISTASIS, GENETIC; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; GENETIC MARKERS; HUMANS; LINKAGE (GENETICS); LOD SCORE; OBESITY; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCI; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT, HERITABLE; SIBLINGS;

EID: 12744271910     PISSN: 10184813     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/sj.ejhg.5201292     Document Type: Article

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