Study of association between common variation in the insulin-like growth factor 2 gene and indices of obesity and body size in middle-aged men and women

Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism

Volumn 92, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 2734-2738

  Heude, Barbara ^a,b   Ong, Ken K ^a,c   Luben, Robert ^c   Wareham, Nicholas J ^a   Sandhu, Manjinder S ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b INSERM   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SOMATOMEDIN B;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; BODY SIZE; BODY WEIGHT; CANCER; DIABETES MELLITUS; FEMALE; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; HAPLOTYPE; HETEROZYGOSITY; HUMAN; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; MALE; MEDICAL RESEARCH; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OBESITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM;

EID: 34447130909     PISSN: 0021972X     EISSN: 0021972X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1210/jc.2006-1948     Document Type: Article

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