A rare mutation in AgRP, +79G > A, affects promoter activity

European Journal of Clinical Nutrition

Volumn 61, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 809-812

  Sozen M A ^a,b   de Jonge, L H M ^a   Greenway, F ^a   Ravussin, E ^a   Smith, S R ^a   Argyropoulos, G ^a  

^a PENNINGTON BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b AFYON KOCATEPE UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENINE; AGOUTI RELATED PROTEIN; ALANINE; GUANINE; THREONINE; AGOUTI-RELATED PROTEIN; SIGNAL PEPTIDE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADRENAL CORTEX CELL; ADULT; AGE; ALLELE; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; BODY WEIGHT; CASE REPORT; CAUCASIAN; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; DISEASE RESISTANCE; FEMALE; GENE ACTIVITY; GENE MUTATION; HETEROZYGOTE; HUMAN; HYPOTHALAMUS; MALE; METABOLIC RATE; OBESITY; ONSET AGE; PHENOTYPE; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN POLYMORPHISM; WEIGHT GAIN; BASAL METABOLIC RATE; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; METABOLISM; MIDDLE AGED; MUTATION; PHYSIOLOGY; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM;

AGOUTI;

BASAL METABOLISM; FEMALE; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; INTERCELLULAR SIGNALING PEPTIDES AND PROTEINS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MUTATION; OBESITY; PHENOTYPE; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; THINNESS;

EID: 34447107165     PISSN: 09543007     EISSN: 14765640     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/sj.ejcn.1602585     Document Type: Article

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