Evaluation of 41 Candidate Gene Variants for Obesity in the EPIC-Potsdam Cohort by Multi-Locus Stepwise Regression

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 7, 2013, Pages

  Knüppel, Sven ^a   Rohde, Klaus ^b   Meidtner, Karina ^a   Drogan, Dagmar ^a   Holzhütter, Hermann Georg ^c   Boeing, Heiner ^a   Fisher, Eva ^d  

^a GERMAN INSTITUTE OF HUMAN NUTRITION   (Germany)

^b MAX DELBRÜCK CENTER FOR MOLECULAR MEDICINE   (Germany)

^c CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

^d ROBERT KOCH INSTITUTE   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

11BETA HYDROXYSTEROID DEHYDROGENASE 1; FATTY ACID BINDING PROTEIN 2; LEPTIN RECEPTOR; MELANOCORTIN 4 RECEPTOR; MICROSOMAL TRIGLYCERIDE TRANSFER PROTEIN; PEROXISOME PROLIFERATOR ACTIVATED RECEPTOR GAMMA; SOMATOMEDIN C; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR 7 LIKE 2;

11BETA HYDROXYSTEROID DEHYDROGENASE 1 GENE; ABCC8 GENE; ADULT; AGED; ALLELE; ALPI GENE; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; FAT MASS AND OBESITY ASSOCIATED GENE; FATTY ACID BINDING PROTEIN 1 GENE; FATTY ACID BINDING PROTEIN 2 GENE; FEMALE; GENE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HUMAN; INSIG2 GENE; LEPTIN RECEPTOR GENE; MALE; MELANOCORTIN 4 RECEPTOR GENE; MICROSOMAL TRIGLYCERIDE TRANSFER PROTEIN GENE; MULTILOCUS STEPWISE REGRESSION; NORMAL HUMAN; NPC1 GENE; OBESITY; PEROXISOME PROLIFERATOR ACTIVATED RECEPTOR GAMMA GENE; PHENOTYPE; PTGES2 GENE; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; SOMATOMEDIN C GENE; SREBF1 GENE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TBC1D1 GENE; TMEM18 GENE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR 7 LIKE 2 GENE; UNCERTAINTY; WAIST CIRCUMFERENCE;

ADULT; AGED; ALLELES; COHORT STUDIES; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FEMALE; GENETIC ASSOCIATION STUDIES; GENETIC LOCI; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; GERMANY; HAPLOTYPES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OBESITY; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SEX CHARACTERISTICS;

EID: 84880071403     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0068941     Document Type: Article

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