Amino acid variants in the human leptin receptor: Lack of association to juvenile onset obesity

Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications

Volumn 233, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 248-252

  Echwald, Søren M ^a   Sørensen, Tina D ^a   Sørensen, Thorkild I A ^b   Tybjærg Hansen, Anne ^b,c   Andersen, Teis ^b   Chung, Wendy K ^d   Leibel, Rudolph L ^d   Pedersen, Oluf ^a  

^a STENO DIABETES CENTER   (Denmark)

^b University of Copenhagen   (Denmark)

^c GENTOFTE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

^d ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; BRAIN RECEPTOR; DNA; LEPTIN;

ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HETEROZYGOTE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HYPOTHALAMUS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OBESITY; ONSET AGE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN VARIANT; RECEPTOR GENE; SINGLE STRAND CONFORMATION POLYMORPHISM;

EID: 17344387584     PISSN: 0006291X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/bbrc.1997.6430     Document Type: Article

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