From monogenic to polygenic obesity: Recent advances

European Child and Adolescent Psychiatry

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 297-310

  Hinney, Anke ^a,b   Vogel, Carla I G ^a   Hebebrand, Johannes ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DUISBURG ESSEN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DUISBURG ESSEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Genome wide; Heritability

Indexed keywords

ADAPTOR PROTEIN; BRAIN DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; FAT MASS AND OBESITY ASSOCIATED PROTEIN; INSULIN INDUCED PROTEIN 2; LEPTIN; LEPTIN RECEPTOR; MELANOCORTIN 4 RECEPTOR; PEPTIDES AND PROTEINS; PROOPIOMELANOCORTIN; PROPROTEIN CONVERTASE 1; PROTEIN SH2B; PROTEIN SH2B1; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

BODY MASS; EPIGENETICS; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; GENETIC RISK; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HERITABILITY; HORMONE DEFICIENCY; HUMAN; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MONOGENIC DISORDER; MULTIFACTORIAL INHERITANCE; NON INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; NONHUMAN; OBESITY; PHENOTYPE; POPULATION GENETICS; REVIEW; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; WEIGHT REDUCTION;

ADOLESCENT; ADOPTION; ANIMALS; BODY WEIGHT; CHILD; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; DISEASES IN TWINS; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; GENETIC DISEASES, INBORN; GENETIC MARKERS; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; GENETIC VARIATION; HUMANS; MULTIFACTORIAL INHERITANCE; OBESITY; PHENOTYPE; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT;

EID: 77950858297     PISSN: 10188827     EISSN: 1435165X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00787-010-0096-6     Document Type: Review

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