Association of proopiomelanocortin gene polymorphisms with obesity in the IRAS family study

Obesity Research

Volumn 13, Issue 9, 2005, Pages 1491-1498

  Sutton, Beth S ^a   Langefeld, Carl D ^a   Williams, Adrienne H ^a   Norris, Jill M ^b   Saad, Mohammed F ^c   Haffner, Steven M ^d   Bowden, Donald W ^a  

^a WAKE FOREST SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER AT SAN ANTONIO   (United States)

Author keywords

Adiposity; Association; Linkage; Proopiomelanocortin; Single nucleotide polymorphism

Indexed keywords

PROOPIOMELANOCORTIN;

ABDOMINAL SUBCUTANEOUS FAT; ADULT; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CLINICAL TRIAL; FEMALE; GENETICS; HAPLOTYPE; HISPANIC; HUMAN; INTRAABDOMINAL FAT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTICENTER STUDY; OBESITY; RADIOGRAPHY; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; WAIST HIP RATIO;

ADULT; BODY MASS INDEX; FEMALE; HAPLOTYPES; HISPANIC AMERICANS; HUMANS; INTRA-ABDOMINAL FAT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OBESITY; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; PRO-OPIOMELANOCORTIN; SUBCUTANEOUS FAT, ABDOMINAL; WAIST-HIP RATIO;

EID: 33644676738     PISSN: 10717323     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/oby.2005.180     Document Type: Article

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