Questioning INS VNTR role in obesity and diabetes: Subclasses tag IGF2-INS-TH haplotypes; and -23HphI as a STEP (splicing and translational efficiency polymorphism)

Physiological Genomics

Volumn 28, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 113-

  Day, Ian N M ^a,b   Rodriguez, Santiago ^a   Královičová, Jana ^a   Wood, Peter J ^a   Vořechovský, Igor ^a   Gaunt, Tom R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CATECHOLAMINE; INSULIN; SOMATOMEDIN B; BONE GROWTH FACTORS; ENDODEOXYRIBONUCLEASE HPHI; PROTEIN; TYPE II SITE SPECIFIC DEOXYRIBONUCLEASE; TYROSINE 3 MONOOXYGENASE;

3' UNTRANSLATED REGION; ALLELE; BODY MASS; DNA FLANKING REGION; GENE LOCUS; GENE MAPPING; HAPLOTYPE; HUMAN; INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; INSULIN RELEASE; LETTER; OBESITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; VARIABLE NUMBER OF TANDEM REPEAT; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENETICS; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL; MALE; METABOLISM; NON INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; NOTE; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; RNA SPLICING;

BLOOD GLUCOSE; DEOXYRIBONUCLEASES, TYPE II SITE-SPECIFIC; DIABETES MELLITUS, TYPE 2; HAPLOTYPES; HUMANS; INSULIN; MALE; MINISATELLITE REPEATS; OBESITY; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; PROTEIN BIOSYNTHESIS; PROTEINS; RNA SPLICING; TYROSINE 3-MONOOXYGENASE;

EID: 34247859002     PISSN: 10948341     EISSN: 15312267     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/physiolgenomics.00126.2006     Document Type: Letter

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