Overexpression of Fto leads to increased food intake and results in obesity

Nature Genetics

Volumn 42, Issue 12, 2010, Pages 1086-1092

  Church, Chris ^a   Moir, Lee ^a   McMurray, Fiona ^a   Girard, Christophe ^b   Banks, Gareth T ^a   Teboul, Lydia ^a   Wells, Sara ^a   Brüning, Jens C ^c   Nolan, Patrick M ^a   Ashcroft, Frances M ^b   Cox, Roger D ^a  

^a MRC Harwell   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BODY FAT; BODY MASS; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FOOD INTAKE; FTO GENE; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; GLUCOSE INTOLERANCE; LIPID DIET; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; OBESITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADIPOSITY; ANIMALS; AREA UNDER CURVE; BODY TEMPERATURE; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; DIETARY FATS; ENERGY METABOLISM; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; GLUCOSE; GLUCOSE TOLERANCE TEST; HOMEOSTASIS; MALE; MICE; MODELS, ANIMAL; MOTOR ACTIVITY; OBESITY; OXO-ACID-LYASES;

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EID: 78649459183     PISSN: 10614036     EISSN: 15461718     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ng.713     Document Type: Article

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