Genetic factors for human obesity

Cellular and Molecular Life Sciences

Volumn 65, Issue 7-8, 2008, Pages 1086-1098

  Ichihara, S ^a   Yamada, Y ^a  

^a MIE UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Candidate gene; Genome wide association study; Obesity; Polymorphism; Susceptibility gene

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE DIPHOSPHATE RIBOSYLATION FACTOR; BETA 2 ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR; BETA 3 ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR; BETA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR; BRAIN DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; BRAIN DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR RECEPTOR; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; CORTICOTROPIN; DIPEPTIDYL CARBOXYPEPTIDASE; FURIN; GUANINE NUCLEOTIDE BINDING PROTEIN; INTERMEDIN; LEPTIN; LEPTIN RECEPTOR; MELANOCORTIN 4 RECEPTOR; MESSENGER RNA; PEROXISOME PROLIFERATOR ACTIVATED RECEPTOR GAMMA; PROOPIOMELANOCORTIN; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA; UNCOUPLING PROTEIN 1; UNCOUPLING PROTEIN 2; UNCOUPLING PROTEIN 3;

AFRICAN AMERICAN; ALSTROM SYNDROME; AMISH; BARDET BIEDL SYNDROME; BORJESON FORSSMAN LEHMANN SYNDROME; CANADA; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; EUROPEAN AMERICAN; EXON; FINLAND; GENE; GENE INTERACTION; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC IDENTIFICATION; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOME ANALYSIS; GENOTYPE ENVIRONMENT INTERACTION; GERMANY; HEREDITY; HISPANIC; HONG KONG; HUMAN; INDIAN; INHERITANCE; INTRON; LINKAGE ANALYSIS; MONOGENIC DISORDER; MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; NEGRO; NETHERLANDS; NONSENSE MUTATION; OBESITY; OPEN READING FRAME; PHASEOLUS VULGARIS; PRADER WILLI SYNDROME; RECEPTOR GENE; REVIEW; SIM1 GENE; UNITED STATES; X CHROMOSOME LINKED DISORDER;

ENVIRONMENT; EPISTASIS, GENETIC; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; HUMANS; LINKAGE (GENETICS); OBESITY; SYNDROME;

EID: 42449102208     PISSN: 1420682X     EISSN: 15691632     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00018-007-7453-8     Document Type: Review

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