Evaluation of Prader-Willi syndrome gene MAGEL2 in severe childhood-onset obesity

Obesity Research

Volumn 13, Issue 10, 2005, Pages 1841-1842

  O'Neill, Megan A ^a   Farooqi, I Sadaf ^b   Wevrick, Rachel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MURINAE;

MAGEL2 PROTEIN, HUMAN; MAGEL2 PROTEIN, MOUSE; PRIMER DNA; PROTEIN; TUMOR ANTIGEN;

ARTICLE; GENETICS; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OBESITY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PRADER WILLI SYNDROME;

ANTIGENS, NEOPLASM; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA PRIMERS; HUMANS; OBESITY; PRADER-WILLI SYNDROME; PROTEINS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

EID: 33644788640     PISSN: 10717323     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/oby.2005.224     Document Type: Article

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