INS VNTR class genotype and indexes of body size and obesity: Population-based studies of 7,999 middle-aged men and women

Diabetes

Volumn 54, Issue 9, 2005, Pages 2812-2815

  Sandhu, Manjinder S ^a,b   Hende, Barbara ^b   Young, Elizabeth H ^a,b   Luben, Robert ^a   Luan, Jian'an ^b   Khaw, Kay Tee ^a   Todd, John ^c   Wareham, Nicholas J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INSULIN;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BODY SIZE; BODY WEIGHT; COHORT ANALYSIS; FEMALE; GENE; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; INSULIN GENE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OBESITY; POPULATION RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; UNITED KINGDOM; VARIABLE NUMBER OF TANDEM REPEAT;

AGED; BODY SIZE; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; INSULIN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MINISATELLITE REPEATS; OBESITY; PHENOTYPE; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC;

EID: 24144434385     PISSN: 00121797     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2337/diabetes.54.9.2812     Document Type: Article

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