Glucocorticoid receptor gene variant is associated with increased body fatness in youngsters

Clinical Endocrinology

Volumn 71, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 518-523

  Voorhoeve, Paul G ^a   Van Den Akker, Erica L T ^a,b   Van Rossum, Elisabeth F C ^b   Koper, Jan W ^b   Van Mechelen, Willem ^c   Lamberts, Steven W J ^b   Delemarre Van De Waal, Henriette A ^c  

^a CANISIUS WILHELMINA HOSPITAL   (Netherlands)

^b ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^c VU UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLUCOCORTICOID RECEPTOR;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANTHROPOMETRIC PARAMETERS; ARTICLE; BCL 1 GENE; BODY COMPOSITION; BODY FAT; BODY MASS; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; DNA POLYMORPHISM; DUAL ENERGY X RAY ABSORPTIOMETRY; FEMALE; GENE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; HAPLOTYPE; HEIGHT; HETEROZYGOTE DETECTION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OBESITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBERTY; SCHOOL CHILD; WEIGHT;

ADIPOSE TISSUE; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BODY COMPOSITION; CHILD; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; RECEPTORS, GLUCOCORTICOID;

EID: 69949139256     PISSN: 03000664     EISSN: 13652265     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2265.2009.03538.x     Document Type: Article

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