Association of the INS VNTR with size at birth

Nature Genetics

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 98-100

  Dunger, David B ^a   Ong, Ken K L ^a   Huxtable, Stewart J ^b   Sherriff, Andrea ^c   Woods, Kathryn A ^a   Ahmed, Marion L ^a   Golding, Jean ^c   Pembrey, Marcus E ^d   Ring, Sue ^e   Bennett, Simon T ^b   Todd, John A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^e SOUTHMEAD HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA; INSULIN; SOMATOMEDIN B; SOMATOMEDIN BINDING PROTEIN; SOMATOMEDIN C;

ALLELE; ARTICLE; BIRTH WEIGHT; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; GENE; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; HEAD CIRCUMFERENCE; HOMOZYGOTE; HUMAN; INFANT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NON INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURVIVAL; VARIABLE NUMBER OF TANDEM REPEAT;

BIRTH WEIGHT; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COHORT STUDIES; DISEASE SUSCEPTIBILITY; GENOTYPE; HOMOZYGOTE; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; INSULIN; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MINISATELLITE REPEATS;

EID: 17344374393     PISSN: 10614036     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ng0598-98     Document Type: Article

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