Nutritional regulation of genome-wide association obesity genes in a tissue-dependent manner

Nutrition and Metabolism

Volumn 9, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Yoganathan, Piriya ^a   Karunakaran, Subashini ^a   Ho, Maggie M ^a   Clee, Susanne M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Adipose tissue; Brain; Feeding and fasting; Gene expression; Gene diet interaction; Genome wide association; High fat diet; Obesity genes

Indexed keywords

ADIPOSE TISSUE; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIET; DOWN REGULATION; FEMALE; FOOD INTAKE; GENE; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HYPOTHALAMUS; LIPID DIET; LIVER; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; OBESITY; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; UPREGULATION;

ANIMALIA; MUS; RODENTIA;

EID: 84863585305     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17437075     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1743-7075-9-65     Document Type: Article

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