Mitochondrial genetics and obesity: Evolutionary adaptation and contemporary disease susceptibility

Free Radical Biology and Medicine

Volumn 65, Issue , 2013, Pages 1229-1237

  Dunham Snary, Kimberly J ^a   Ballinger, Scott W ^a  

^a University of Alabama at Birmingham   (United States)

Author keywords

Bioenergetics; Evolution; Free radicals; Mitochondria; Mitochondrial genetics; Obesity

Indexed keywords

C REACTIVE PROTEIN; GLUTATHIONE PEROXIDASE; INTERLEUKIN 6; LEPTIN; LEPTIN RECEPTOR; MANGANESE SUPEROXIDE DISMUTASE; MELANOCORTIN 4 RECEPTOR; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; MITOFUSIN 2; REACTIVE OXYGEN METABOLITE; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA;

BIOGENESIS; BODY MASS; CELL DEATH; CELL FUNCTION; CELL GROWTH; DEVELOPED COUNTRY; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; ENERGY EXPENDITURE; ENVIRONMENTAL STRESS; EVOLUTIONARY ADAPTATION; FOOD INTAKE; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENOTYPE ENVIRONMENT INTERACTION; HUMAN; MITOCHONDRIAL GENETICS; MITOCHONDRIAL GENOME; MITOCHONDRION; NONHUMAN; OBESITY; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PREHISTORIC PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SEDENTARY LIFESTYLE; WAIST CIRCUMFERENCE; WEIGHT GAIN;

BIOENERGETICS; EVOLUTION; FREE RADICALS; MITOCHONDRIA; MITOCHONDRIAL GENETICS; OBESITY;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; HUMANS; INFLAMMATION; MITOCHONDRIA; OBESITY; OXIDATIVE STRESS;

EID: 84885359544     PISSN: 08915849     EISSN: 18734596     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.freeradbiomed.2013.09.007     Document Type: Review

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