Investigation of a genome wide association signal for obesity: Synthetic association and haplotype analyses at the melanocortin 4 receptor gene locus

PLoS ONE

Volumn 5, Issue 11, 2010, Pages

  Scherag, André ^a   Jarick, Ivonne ^b   Grothe, Jessica ^c   Biebermann, Heike ^c   Scherag, Susann ^a   Volckmar, Anna Lena ^a   Vogel, Carla Ivane Ganz ^a   Greene, Brandon ^b   Hebebrand, Johannes ^a   Hinney, Anke ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DUISBURG ESSEN   (Germany)

^b PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

^c CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MELANOCORTIN 4 RECEPTOR;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EFFECT SIZE; FEMALE; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOME ANALYSIS; GENOME SIZE; HAPLOTYPE; HETEROZYGOTE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; OBESITY; RISK FACTOR; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; CHILD; DNA FLANKING REGION; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; METHODOLOGY; MUTATION; OPEN READING FRAME; STATISTICAL MODEL;

3' FLANKING REGION; 5' FLANKING REGION; ADOLESCENT; CHILD; FEMALE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; GENOTYPE; HAPLOTYPES; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MUTATION; OBESITY; OPEN READING FRAMES; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; RECEPTOR, MELANOCORTIN, TYPE 4; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 78649502323     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0013967     Document Type: Article

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