Systematic mutation screening of the pro-opiomelanocortin gene: Identification of several genetic variants including three different insertions, one nonsense and two missense point mutations in probands of different weight extremes

Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism

Volumn 83, Issue 10, 1998, Pages 3737-3741

  Hinney, A ^a   Becker, I ^a   Heibult O ^a   Nottebom, K ^a   Schmidt, A ^a   Ziegler, A ^a   Mayer, H ^b   Siegfried, W ^c   Blum, W F ^d,e   Remschmidt, H ^a   Hebebrand, J ^a  

^a PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

^b Children's Hospital Hochried   (Germany)

^c Obesity Treatment Center Insula   (Germany)

^d JUSTUS LIEBIG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^e LILLY DEUTSCHLAND GMBH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROOPIOMELANOCORTIN;

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; CHILD; ENDOCRINE DISEASE; FEMALE; FOOD INTAKE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENETIC SCREENING; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MISSENSE MUTATION; NONSENSE MUTATION; OBESITY; POINT MUTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 15644369364     PISSN: 0021972X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1210/jcem.83.10.5298     Document Type: Article

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