Beyond the fourth wave of genome-wide obesity association studies

Nutrition and Diabetes

Volumn 2, Issue JULY, 2012, Pages

  Sandholt, C H ^a   Hansen, T ^a,b,c   Pedersen, O ^a,b,c,d  

^a Novo Nordisk Foundation   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN DENMARK   (Denmark)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^d AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Epigenetic modifications; Future perspectives; Gene environment interaction; Genome wide association studies; Low frequent and rare variants; Obesity

Indexed keywords

COPY NUMBER VARIATION; DNA MODIFICATION; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; EPIGENETICS; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; GENE LOCUS; GENE REPLICATION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC RISK; GENETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; GENOTYPE ENVIRONMENT INTERACTION; HERITABILITY; HUMAN; INTRAABDOMINAL FAT; LIPID STORAGE; META ANALYSIS (TOPIC); MORBID OBESITY; OBESITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM;

EID: 84874645213     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20444052     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nutd.2012.9     Document Type: Review

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