Association between the FTO gene and overweight in Japanese children and adolescents

Pediatric Diabetes

Volumn 12, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 494-500

  Okuda, Masayuki ^a   Hinoda, Yuji ^a,b   Okayama, Naoko ^b   Suehiro, Yutaka ^b   Shirabe, Komei ^c   Sasaki, Satoshi ^d   Kunitsugu, Ichiro ^b   Yoshitake, Norikazu ^b   Hobara, Tatsuya ^a,b  

^a YAMAGUCHI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b YAMAGUCHI UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^c Yamaguchi Prefectural Institute of Public Health and Environment   (Japan)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

FTO gene; Nested case control study; Obesity; Overweight; Single nucleotide polymorphism

Indexed keywords

ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASE; GAMMA GLUTAMYLTRANSFERASE; GENOMIC DNA; GLUCOSE; HIGH DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN CHOLESTEROL; LOW DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN CHOLESTEROL; TRIACYLGLYCEROL;

ADOLESCENT; ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE BLOOD LEVEL; ALLELE; ANTHROPOMETRY; ARTICLE; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASE BLOOD LEVEL; BLOOD SAMPLING; BODY HEIGHT; BODY MASS; BODY WEIGHT; CALORIC INTAKE; CARBOHYDRATE INTAKE; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CHILD; CHILDHOOD DISEASE; CHOLESTEROL BLOOD LEVEL; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIASTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; DIETARY INTAKE; FEMALE; FTO GENE; GENE; GENE LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; GENOTYPE; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HUMAN; JAPANESE; LIFESTYLE; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OBESITY; ONSET AGE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN INTAKE; QUESTIONNAIRE; RISK FACTOR; SCHOOL CHILD; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; SLEEP; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE;

ADOLESCENT; ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; BODY MASS INDEX; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHILD; FEMALE; FOOD HABITS; HUMANS; JAPAN; LIFE STYLE; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; OBESITY; OVERWEIGHT; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; PROTEINS;

EID: 79960891742     PISSN: 1399543X     EISSN: 13995448     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1399-5448.2010.00727.x     Document Type: Article

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