Implication of European-derived adiposity loci in African Americans

International Journal of Obesity

Volumn 36, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 465-473

  Hester, J M ^a   Wing, M R ^a   Li, J ^a   Palmer, N D ^a   Xu, J ^a   Hicks, P J ^a   Roh, B H ^a   Norris, J M ^b   Wagenknecht, L E ^a   Langefeld, C D ^a   Freedman, B I ^a   Bowden, D W ^a   Ng, M C Y ^a  

^a WAKE FOREST SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Colorado State University and the Department of Environmental and Occupational Health at the Colorado School of Public Health   (United States)

Author keywords

African Americans; body mass index; genome wide association

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; ALLELE; ARTICLE; EUROPEAN AMERICAN; FEMALE; GENE; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENOME ANALYSIS; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MC4R GENE; NEGR1 GENE; OBESITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SH2B1 GENE; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; TMEM18 GENE;

ADAPTOR PROTEINS, SIGNAL TRANSDUCING; ADIPOSITY; AFRICAN AMERICANS; BODY WEIGHT; CELL ADHESION MOLECULES, NEURONAL; DIABETES MELLITUS, TYPE 2; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; GENETIC VARIATION; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; GENOTYPE; GPI-LINKED PROTEINS; HUMANS; MALE; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MIDDLE AGED; OBESITY; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; PROTEINS; RECEPTOR, MELANOCORTIN, TYPE 4; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 84858282155     PISSN: 03070565     EISSN: 14765497     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ijo.2011.131     Document Type: Article

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