Common Variants Near Melanocortin 4 Receptor Are Associated with General and Visceral Adiposity in European- and African-American Youth

Journal of Pediatrics

Volumn 156, Issue 4, 2010, Pages

  Liu, Gaifen ^a   Zhu, Haidong ^b   Lagou, Vasiliki ^a   Gutin, Bernard ^b   Barbeau, Paule ^b   Treiber, Frank A ^b   Dong, Yanbin ^b   Snieder, Harold ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^b MEDICAL COLLEGE OF GEORGIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INSULIN; MELANOCORTIN 4 RECEPTOR;

ABDOMINAL SUBCUTANEOUS FAT; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; ANTHROPOMETRY; ARTICLE; ATTENUATION; BODY FAT; BODY MASS; BODY WEIGHT; CHILD; CHILDHOOD DISEASE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; EUROPEAN AMERICAN; FEMALE; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HAPLOTYPE; HOMEOSTASIS; HUMAN; INSULIN BLOOD LEVEL; INTRAABDOMINAL FAT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MOLECULAR MECHANICS; OBESITY; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHOOL CHILD; SEX DIFFERENCE; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; WAIST CIRCUMFERENCE;

EID: 77949489032     PISSN: 00223476     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jpeds.2009.10.037     Document Type: Article

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