Sex-specific effects of weight-affecting gene variants in a life course perspective - The HUNT Study, Norway

International Journal of Obesity

Volumn 37, Issue 9, 2013, Pages 1221-1229

  Kvaloy K ^a   Kulle, B ^b,c   Romundstad, P ^d   Holmen, T L ^a  

^a NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

^b AKERSHUS UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Norway)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^d NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

Author keywords

adolescents; birth; eating behaviour related loci; MC4R; Obesity susceptibility loci; sex

Indexed keywords

BRAIN DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; CATECHOL METHYLTRANSFERASE;

ADOLESCENCE; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ADULTHOOD; ARTICLE; BIRTH; BODY WEIGHT; CONTROLLED STUDY; EATING DISORDER; FEMALE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; HAPLOTYPE; HUMAN; KNOWLEDGE; LIFE CYCLE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NORWAY; OBESITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX DIFFERENCE; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; WAIST CIRCUMFERENCE; WAIST HIP RATIO;

ADIPOSE TISSUE; ADIPOSITY; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BODY MASS INDEX; BODY WEIGHT; BRAIN-DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; FEMALE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; INTRACELLULAR SIGNALING PEPTIDES AND PROTEINS; MALE; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; NORWAY; OBESITY; PHENOTYPE; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; POTASSIUM CHANNELS; QUESTIONNAIRES; RECEPTOR, MELANOCORTIN, TYPE 4; RECEPTORS, OPIOID, DELTA; WAIST CIRCUMFERENCE; WAIST-HIP RATIO;

EID: 84883759316     PISSN: 03070565     EISSN: 14765497     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ijo.2012.220     Document Type: Article

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