A genome-wide scan for human obesity genes reveals a major susceptibility locus on chromosome 10

Nature Genetics

Volumn 20, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 304-308

  Hager, Jörg ^a,c   Dina, Christian ^a   Francke, Stephan ^a   Dubois, Severine ^a   Houari, Mouna ^a   Vatin, Vincent ^a   Vaillant, Emmanuel ^a   Lorentz, Nathalie ^a   Basdevant, Arnaud ^b   Clement, Karine ^a,b   Guy Grand, Bernard ^b   Froguel, Philippe ^a  

^a INSTITUT DE BIOLOGIE DE LILLE   (France)

^b HÔTEL DIEU   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LEPTIN; PROOPIOMELANOCORTIN;

ARTICLE; BODY WEIGHT; CHROMOSOME 10P; CHROMOSOME 2P; CHROMOSOME 5; GENETIC MARKER; GENETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; NON INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; OBESITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT; RISK FACTOR;

ALLELES; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, PAIR 10; FEMALE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC MARKERS; GENOME, HUMAN; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; LEPTIN; LINKAGE (GENETICS); MALE; OBESITY; PHENOTYPE; PROTEINS; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT, HERITABLE;

EID: 17344371519     PISSN: 10614036     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/3123     Document Type: Article

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