FTO gene SNPs associated with extreme obesity in cases, controls and extremely discordant sister pairs

BMC Medical Genetics

Volumn 9, Issue , 2008, Pages

  Price, R Arlen ^a   Li, Wei Dong ^a   Zhao, Hongyu ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GENE PRODUCT; PROTEIN FTO; FTO PROTEIN, HUMAN; PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADULT; ALLELE; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC RISK; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MORBID OBESITY; SIBLING; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; SISTER GROUP; ADOLESCENT; AGED; CASE CONTROL STUDY; GENE LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; GENETIC MARKER; GENETICS; MIDDLE AGED;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; BODY MASS INDEX; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; FEMALE; GENETIC MARKERS; HUMANS; LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; MIDDLE AGED; OBESITY, MORBID; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; PROTEINS;

EID: 39749116842     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712350     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2350-9-4     Document Type: Article

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