Lack of relation between bitter taste receptor TAS2R38 and BMI in adults

Obesity

Volumn 17, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 937-938

  Sausenthaler, Stefanie ^a   Rzehak, Peter ^a,b   Wichmann, H Erich ^a,b   Heinrich, Joachim ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF EPIDEMIOLOGY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

G PROTEIN COUPLED RECEPTOR; TASTE RECEPTORS, TYPE 2;

ADULT; BODY MASS; CAUCASIAN; GENETICS; HUMAN; LETTER; MIDDLE AGED; PHYSIOLOGY; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; TASTE; TASTE BUD;

ADULT; BODY MASS INDEX; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; RECEPTORS, G-PROTEIN-COUPLED; TASTE; TASTE BUDS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 66149145389     PISSN: 19307381     EISSN: 1930739X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/oby.2009.15     Document Type: Letter

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