A genomewide linkage scan for quantitative-trait loci for obesity phenotypes

American Journal of Human Genetics

Volumn 70, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 1138-1151

  Deng, Hong Wen ^a,b   Deng, Hongyi ^a   Liu, Yong Jun ^a   Liu, Yao Zhong ^a   Xu, Fu Hua ^a   Shen, Hui ^a   Conway, Theresa ^a   Li, Jin Long ^a   Huang, Qing Yang ^a   Davies, K M ^a   Recker, Robert R ^a  

^a CREIGHTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b HUNAN NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BODY FAT; BODY MASS; BONE MASS; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENE FUNCTION; GENE ISOLATION; GENETIC RISK; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OBESITY; PEDIGREE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCUS;

EID: 18344374004     PISSN: 00029297     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/339934     Document Type: Article

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