A Common variant near the melanocortin 4 receptor is associated with low-density lipoprotein cholesterol and total cholesterol in the Chinese Han population

Molecular Biology Reports

Volumn 39, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 6487-6493

  Tao, Liming ^a   Zhang, Zhou ^a   Chen, Zhuo ^a   Zhou, Daizhan ^a   Li, Weidong ^b   Kan, Mengyuan ^a   Zhang, Di ^a   He, Lin ^a,b,c   Huang, Guoying ^c   Liu, Yun ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^b SHANGHAI JIAO TONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c FUDAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

BMI; Lipid concentration; MC4R; Rs17782313

Indexed keywords

CHOLESTEROL; HIGH DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN CHOLESTEROL; LOW DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN CHOLESTEROL; MELANOCORTIN 4 RECEPTOR; TRIACYLGLYCEROL;

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CHINESE; CHOLESTEROL BLOOD LEVEL; CLINICAL EVALUATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE LOCATION; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OBESITY; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; SEX DIFFERENCE; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; TRIACYLGLYCEROL BLOOD LEVEL;

AGED; ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHOLESTEROL; CHOLESTEROL, HDL; CHOLESTEROL, LDL; DIABETES MELLITUS, TYPE 2; FEMALE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC ASSOCIATION STUDIES; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; RECEPTOR, MELANOCORTIN, TYPE 4; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; TRIGLYCERIDES;

EID: 84864289590     PISSN: 03014851     EISSN: 15734978     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11033-012-1476-4     Document Type: Article

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