Genetic determinants of common obesity and their value in prediction

Best Practice and Research: Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism

Volumn 26, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 211-226

  Loos, Ruth J F ^a  

^a ADDENBROOKE S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

body mass index (BMI); genome wide association; obesity; personal genome profile; prediction

Indexed keywords

BRAIN DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; FAT MASS AND OBESITY ASSOCIATED PROTEIN; MELANOCORTIN 4 RECEPTOR; PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BODY FAT DISTRIBUTION; BODY MASS; CHILDHOOD DISEASE; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; FAMILY HISTORY; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; GENOME; HUMAN; OBESITY; PERSONALIZED MEDICINE; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PREVALENCE; RISK FACTOR;

EID: 84859575363     PISSN: 1521690X     EISSN: 15321908     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.beem.2011.11.003     Document Type: Review

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