Common genetic components of obesity traits and serum leptin

Obesity

Volumn 16, Issue 12, 2008, Pages 2723-2729

  Hasselbalch, Ann L ^a   Benyamin, Beben ^b   Visscher, Peter M ^b   Heitmann, Berit L ^a   Kyvik, Kirsten O ^c   Sørensen, Thorkild I A ^a  

^a The Capital Region   (Denmark)

^b QIMR BERGHOFER MEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LEPTIN;

ADIPOSE TISSUE; ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD; BODY COMPOSITION; BODY MASS; BODY WEIGHT; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DENMARK; DIZYGOTIC TWINS; ENVIRONMENT; FEMALE; GENETICS; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MONOZYGOTIC TWINS; OBESITY; PHENOTYPE; SKINFOLD THICKNESS; TWINS; WAIST CIRCUMFERENCE;

ADIPOSE TISSUE; ADULT; BODY COMPOSITION; BODY MASS INDEX; BODY WEIGHT; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DENMARK; DISEASES IN TWINS; ENVIRONMENT; FEMALE; HUMANS; LEPTIN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OBESITY; PHENOTYPE; SKINFOLD THICKNESS; TWINS, DIZYGOTIC; TWINS, MONOZYGOTIC; WAIST CIRCUMFERENCE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 58149293615     PISSN: 19307381     EISSN: 1930739X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/oby.2008.440     Document Type: Article

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