Genetic regulation of birth weight and fasting glucose by a common polymorphism in the islet cell promoter of the glucokinase gene

Diabetes

Volumn 54, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 576-581

  Weedon, Michael N ^a   Frayling, Timothy M ^a   Shields, Beverley ^a   Knight, Beatrice ^a   Turner, Tina ^a   Metcalf, Bradley S ^a   Voss, Linda ^a   Wilkin, Terence J ^a   McCarthy, Anne ^b   Ben Shlomo, Yoav ^b   Smith, George Davey ^b   Ring, Sue ^b   Jones, Richard ^b   Golding, Jean ^b   Byberg, Liisa ^c   Mann, Vera ^d   Axelsson, Tomas ^d   Syvänen, Ann Christine ^d   Leon, David ^c   Hattersley, Andrew T ^a  

^a PENINSULA MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^c UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^d LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLUCOKINASE; GLUCOSE;

ADULT; ALLELE; ARTICLE; BIRTH WEIGHT; DNA POLYMORPHISM; FEMALE; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC REGULATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL; HUMAN; HYPERGLYCEMIA; MALE; NON INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; PANCREAS ISLET CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGENY; UNITED KINGDOM;

ADULT; ALLELES; BIRTH WEIGHT; BLOOD GLUCOSE; ENGLAND; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; GLUCOKINASE; GLUCOSE INTOLERANCE; HUMANS; ISLETS OF LANGERHANS; MALE; MOTHERS; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); SWEDEN; VARIATION (GENETICS);

EID: 19944432769     PISSN: 00121797     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2337/diabetes.54.2.576     Document Type: Article

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