Genetic variance in the spinocerebellar ataxia type 2 (ATXN2) gene in children with severe early onset obesity

PLoS ONE

Volumn 4, Issue 12, 2009, Pages

  Figueroa, Karla P ^a   Farooqi, Sadaf ^b   Harrup, Kristopher ^a   Frank, Johnathan ^c   O'Rahilly, Stephen ^b   Pulst, Stefan M ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NEUROPEPTIDE; SPINOCEREBELLAR ATAXIA TYPE 2 PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; NERVE PROTEIN; SCA2 PROTEIN;

AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; EXON; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE FUNCTION; GENE LOSS; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HETEROZYGOSITY; HOMOZYGOSITY; HUMAN; INTRON; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; OBESITY; PHENOTYPE; POPULATION RESEARCH; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; SPINOCEREBELLAR DEGENERATION; ANIMAL; COHORT ANALYSIS; GENETICS; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MOUSE; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; ONSET AGE; PRESCHOOL CHILD;

AGE OF ONSET; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COHORT STUDIES; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC VARIATION; HUMANS; MICE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; OBESITY; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE;

EID: 77949517591     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0008280     Document Type: Article

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