Obesity: A model of complex interactions between genetics and environment;L'obésité: Un modèle d'interactions complexes entre génétique et environnement

Revue Medicale de Liege

Volumn 67, Issue 5-6, 2012, Pages 332-336

  Paquot, N ^a   De Flines, J ^a   Rorive, M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIÈGE   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Body mass index; Epigenetics; Genome wide association studies

Indexed keywords

DNA METHYLATION; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FETUS DEVELOPMENT; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE INTERACTION; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HISTONE METHYLATION; HUMAN; LIFESTYLE; NUTRITIONAL DISORDER; OBESITY; SHORT SURVEY; WEIGHT GAIN;

ENVIRONMENT; GENE-ENVIRONMENT INTERACTION; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; OBESITY;

EID: 84863677990     PISSN: 0370629X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Short Survey

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