Sex-limited genome-wide linkage scan for body mass index in an unselected sample of 933 Australian twin families

Twin Research and Human Genetics

Volumn 8, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 616-632

  Cornes, Belinda K ^a,b   Medland, Sarah E ^a,b   Ferreira, Manuel A R ^a,b   Morley, Katherine I ^a,b   Duffy, David L ^a   Heijmans, Bastiaan T ^c   Montgomery, Grant W ^a   Martin, Nicholas G ^a,d  

^a QIMR BERGHOFER MEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^c LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^d ROYAL BRISBANE AND WOMEN'S HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CHROMOSOME 20; CHROMOSOME 8; FEMALE; GENE MAPPING; GENETIC LINKAGE; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NON INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; OBESITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCUS; SEX DIFFERENCE; TWINS; VARIANCE;

BODY MASS INDEX; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN; DIABETES MELLITUS, TYPE 2; GENOME, HUMAN; HUMANS; LINKAGE (GENETICS); MALE; OBESITY; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCI; SEX FACTORS; TWINS;

EID: 28544449261     PISSN: 18324274     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1375/183242705774860240     Document Type: Article

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