Melanocortin 4 receptor sequence variations are seldom a cause of human obesity: The Swedish obese subjects, the heritage family study, and a Memphis cohort

Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism

Volumn 87, Issue 10, 2002, Pages 4442-4446

  Jacobson, Peter ^a   Ukkola, Olavi ^b   Rankinen, Tuomo ^c   Snyder, Eric E ^d   Leon, Arthur S ^e   Rao, D C ^f   Skinner, James S ^g   Wilmore, Jack H ^g   Lönn, Lars ^h   Cowan Jr , George S ^a   Sjöström, Lars ^b   Bouchard, Claude ^a  

^a PENNINGTON BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OULU   (Finland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^d WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^e INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^g SAHLGRENSKA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

^h UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MELANOCORTIN 4 RECEPTOR;

ADULT; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA FLANKING REGION; FEMALE; FRAMESHIFT MUTATION; GENE DELETION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MISSENSE MUTATION; NUCLEIC ACID BASE SUBSTITUTION; OBESITY; PHENOTYPE; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SWEDEN; UNITED STATES;

5' UNTRANSLATED REGIONS; ADULT; AFRICAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BASE SEQUENCE; COHORT STUDIES; DNA MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; GENE DELETION; HETEROZYGOTE; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; MUTATION; MUTATION, MISSENSE; OBESITY; PHENOTYPE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RECEPTOR, MELANOCORTIN, TYPE 4; RECEPTORS, CORTICOTROPIN; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SWEDEN; TENNESSEE;

EID: 18644363563     PISSN: 0021972X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1210/jc.2002-020568     Document Type: Article

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