Variations in the uncoupling protein-3 gene are associated with specific obesity phenotypes

European Journal of Endocrinology

Volumn 158, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 669-676

  Van Abeelen, Annet F M ^a,b   de Krom, Mariken ^b   Hendriks, Judith ^b   Grobbce, Diederick E ^a   Adan, Roger A H ^b   Van der Schouw, Yvonne T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; UNCOUPLING PROTEIN 3;

ADULT; AEROBIC METABOLISM; AGED; ALLELE; ANTHROPOMETRIC PARAMETERS; ARTICLE; BODY FAT DISTRIBUTION; BODY MASS; BODY WEIGHT; ENZYME ACTIVITY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FUNCTION; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HETEROZYGOSITY; HOMOZYGOSITY; HUMAN; LINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MOLECULAR MECHANICS; NUCLEIC ACID SYNTHESIS; OBESITY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHENOTYPE; POPULATION RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; THERMOGENESIS;

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; ADIPOSE TISSUE; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BODY MASS INDEX; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; ION CHANNELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MITOCHONDRIAL PROTEINS; NETHERLANDS; OBESITY; PHENOTYPE; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; VARIATION (GENETICS);

EID: 43149118987     PISSN: 08044643     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1530/EJE-07-0834     Document Type: Article

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