Heritability of obesity-related phenotypes and association with adiponectin gene polymorphisms in the chinese national twin registry

Annals of Human Genetics

Volumn 74, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 146-154

  Lee, Juan ^a   Chen, Li ^a   Snieder, Harold ^b   Chen, Da F ^a   Lee, Li M ^a   Liu, Gai F ^b   Wu, Ting ^a,b   Tang, Xun ^a   Zhan, Si Y ^a   Cao, Wei H ^a   Lv, Jun ^a   Gao, Wen J ^a   Hu, Yong H ^a  

^a PEKING UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Adiponectin; Gene polymorphism; Heritability; Obesity; Twin study

Indexed keywords

ADIPONECTIN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CHINESE; DIZYGOTIC TWINS; FEMALE; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENOTYPE; HERITABILITY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OBESITY; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGISTER; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; STRUCTURAL EQUATION MODELING; TWIN DISCORDANCE; TWINS; WAIST CIRCUMFERENCE; WAIST HIP RATIO; ASIAN; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENETICS;

ADIPONECTIN; ADIPOSITY; ADULT; ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; OBESITY; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC;

EID: 77951934365     PISSN: 00034800     EISSN: 14691809     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-1809.2010.00565.x     Document Type: Article

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