Obesity genes: So close and yet so far...

Journal of Biology

Volumn 7, Issue 9, 2008, Pages

  Pomp, Daniel ^a,b   Mohlke, Karen L ^b  

^a IL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; GENE; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC MODEL; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; GENOME ANALYSIS; HUMAN; LEAN BODY WEIGHT; NONHUMAN; OBESITY; POPULATION RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ANIMAL; ANIMAL MODEL; BODY COMPOSITION; BODY MASS; CHROMOSOME MAP; GENETICS; GENOMICS; REVIEW;

ANIMALIA;

ANIMALS; BODY COMPOSITION; BODY MASS INDEX; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; GENOMICS; HUMANS; MODELS, ANIMAL; OBESITY;

EID: 60849109574     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14754924     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/jbiol93     Document Type: Article

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