TUB is a candidate gene for late-onset obesity in women

Diabetologia

Volumn 51, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 54-61

  Snieder, H ^a,b,c   Wang, X ^c   Shiri Sverdlov, R ^d   Van Vliet Ostaptchouk, J V ^a,d   Hofker, M H ^a,d   Perks, U ^b   Spector, T D ^b   O'Dell, S D ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^b KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c MEDICAL COLLEGE OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^d MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Association study; Central obesity; General obesity; Replication; TUB gene

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN; PROTEIN TUB; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADULT; ARTICLE; COHORT ANALYSIS; FEMALE; GENOTYPE PHENOTYPE CORRELATION; HOMOZYGOSITY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; OBESITY; POSTMENOPAUSE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; UNITED KINGDOM; WAIST CIRCUMFERENCE;

ADULT; AGE OF ONSET; ALLELES; BODY MASS INDEX; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; OBESITY; PHENOTYPE; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; POSTMENOPAUSE; PROTEINS;

EID: 36649024319     PISSN: 0012186X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00125-007-0851-5     Document Type: Article

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