Associations between the leptin receptor gene and adiposity in middle-aged caucasian males from the HERITAGE Family Study

Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism

Volumn 85, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 29-34

  Chagnon, Yvon C ^a   Wilmore, Jack H ^b   Borecki, Ingrid B ^c   Gagnon, Jacques ^a   Pérusse, Louis ^a   Chagnon, Monique ^g   Collier, Gregory R ^d   Leon, Arthur S ^e   Skinner, James S ^f   Rao, D C ^c   Bouchard, Claude ^g  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

^b TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d DEAKIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^f INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^g PENNINGTON BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LEPTIN RECEPTOR;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ALLELE; ARTICLE; BODY COMPOSITION; BODY FAT; BODY MASS; CAUCASIAN; GENETIC LINKAGE; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEGRO; OBESITY; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECEPTOR GENE; SKINFOLD THICKNESS;

ADIPOSE TISSUE; AFRICAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; ALLELES; BODY COMPOSITION; CARRIER PROTEINS; DNA; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; EXONS; GENE FREQUENCY; HAPLOTYPES; HUMANS; LINKAGE (GENETICS); MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHENOTYPE; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; RECEPTORS, CELL SURFACE; RECEPTORS, CYTOKINE;

EID: 17744381149     PISSN: 0021972X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1210/jc.85.1.29     Document Type: Article

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