Identification of an obesity quantitative trait locus on mouse chromosome 2 and evidence of linkage to body fat and insulin on the human homologous region 20q

Journal of Clinical Investigation

Volumn 100, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 1240-1247

  Lembertas, Audra V ^a   Pérusse, Louis ^b   Chagnon, Yvon C ^b   Fisler, Janis S ^a,d   Warden, Craig H ^a,e   Purcell Huynh, Deborah A ^a   Dionne, France T ^b   Gagnon, Jacques ^b   Nadeau, André ^b   Lusis, Aldons J ^a,c   Bouchard, Claude ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

^c UCLA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

ADA; ASP; Body mass index; MC3R

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE DEAMINASE; INSULIN;

ADULT; AGED; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BODY FAT; BODY MASS; CANADA; CHROMOSOME 2; CHROMOSOME 20Q; FEMALE; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC LINKAGE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; OBESITY; PEDIGREE ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT; SIBLING;

EID: 1842292786     PISSN: 00219738     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1172/JCI119637     Document Type: Article

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