Genetic origins of low birth weight

Current Opinion in Clinical Nutrition and Metabolic Care

Volumn 15, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 258-264

  Yaghootkar, Hanieh ^a   Freathy, Rachel M ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Birth weight; Genome wide association; Single nucleotide polymorphism; Type 2 diabetes

Indexed keywords

ADENYLATE CYCLASE 5; CYCLIN L1; GLUCOKINASE; GLUCOSE; PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ALLELE; BIRTH WEIGHT; BODY MASS; FETUS GROWTH; GENE; GENE LOCUS; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL; HUMAN; LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; NON INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; NONHUMAN; PREMATURITY; PROGENY; REVIEW; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; UTERUS;

ADENYLATE CYCLASE; ALLELES; CYCLIN-DEPENDENT KINASE 5; DIABETES MELLITUS, TYPE 2; GENETIC LOCI; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; GENOTYPE; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; HUMANS; INFANT, LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; INFANT, NEWBORN; INSULIN; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; PROTEIN-SERINE-THREONINE KINASES; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR 7-LIKE 2 PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 84863610891     PISSN: 13631950     EISSN: 14736519     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/MCO.0b013e328351f543     Document Type: Review

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