Lack of association between a new tag SNP in the FTO gene and BMI in Czech-Slavonic population

European Journal of Human Genetics

Volumn 18, Issue 12, 2010, Pages 1274-

  Dlouha, Dana ^a,b   Adamkova, Vera ^a   Lanska, Vera ^a   Hubacek, Jaroslav A ^a,b  

^a INSTITUTE FOR CLINICAL AND EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE   (Czech Republic)

^b Centre for Experimental Cardiovascular Research   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIRTH WEIGHT; BODY HEIGHT; BODY MASS; CZECHOSLOVAKIA; FTO GENE; GENE; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HUMAN; INTRON; LETTER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; WAIST HIP RATIO;

BODY MASS INDEX; CZECH REPUBLIC; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; ETHNIC GROUPS; FEMALE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC ASSOCIATION STUDIES; GENOME, HUMAN; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; GEOGRAPHY; HUMANS; MALE; OBESITY; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; PROTEINS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 78549254133     PISSN: 10184813     EISSN: 14765438     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ejhg.2010.122     Document Type: Letter

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