Association of the FTO rs9939609 single nucleotide polymorphism with C-reactive protein levels

Obesity

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 330-334

  Fisher, Eva ^a   Schulze, Matthias B ^b   Stefan, Norbert ^c   Häring, Hans Ulrich ^c   Döring, Frank ^d   Joost, Hans Georg ^a   Al Hasani, Hadi ^a   Boeing, Heiner ^a   Pischon, Tobias ^a  

^a GERMAN INSTITUTE OF HUMAN NUTRITION   (Germany)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF KIEL   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

C REACTIVE PROTEIN; FTO PROTEIN, HUMAN; PROTEIN;

ADULT; ALLELE; ARTICLE; BLOOD; COHORT ANALYSIS; FEMALE; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; MALE; METABOLISM; MIDDLE AGED; OBESITY; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ADULT; ALLELES; C-REACTIVE PROTEIN; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; LINEAR MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OBESITY; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; PROTEINS;

EID: 58849148899     PISSN: 19307381     EISSN: 1930739X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/oby.2008.465     Document Type: Article

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