Genetics of obesity: What have we learned?

Current Genomics

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 169-179

  Choquet, Hélène ^a   Meyre, David ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO   (United States)

^b MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Biologic pathways; Disease prediction; Food intake; Gene x environment interactions; Genetic continuum; Mendelian randomization; Obesity; Positive selection; References

Indexed keywords

APOLIPOPROTEIN A2; BRAIN DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; CCAAT ENHANCER BINDING PROTEIN; FAT MASS AND OBESITY ASSOCIATED PROTEIN; GENE PRODUCT; GUANINE NUCLEOTIDE BINDING PROTEIN BETA SUBUNIT; LACTASE; LEPTIN RECEPTOR; MELANOCORTIN 4 RECEPTOR; PROOPIOMELANOCORTIN; PROPROTEIN CONVERTASE 1; RECOMBINANT LEPTIN; SIBUTRAMINE; STAT3 PROTEIN; TETRAHYDROLIPSTATIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BARIATRIC SURGERY; CALORIC INTAKE; CALORIC RESTRICTION; DIETARY INTAKE; DNA REPAIR; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; ENERGY BALANCE; ETHNICITY; FOOD INTAKE; GASTRIC BANDING; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC DISORDER; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; GENETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE ENVIRONMENT INTERACTION; GROWTH RETARDATION; HUMAN; HUMAN GENOME; HYPERPHAGIA; KINESIOTHERAPY; LIFESTYLE MODIFICATION; LIPID DIET; LOW CALORY DIET; LOW FAT DIET; MEDITERRANEAN DIET; MENDELIAN RANDOMIZATION ANALYSIS; MONOGENIC DISORDER; MULTIPLE MALFORMATION SYNDROME; NERVE CELL DIFFERENTIATION; OBESITY; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; ROUX Y ANASTOMOSIS; SEX DIFFERENCE; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; WEIGHT REDUCTION;

EID: 79956266403     PISSN: 13892029     EISSN: 18755488     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2174/138920211795677895     Document Type: Article

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