Obesity and FTO: Changing focus at a complex locus

Cell Metabolism

Volumn 20, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 710-718

  Tung, Y C Loraine ^a   Yeo, Giles S H ^a   O'Rahilly, Stephen ^a   Coll, Anthony P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA; GHRELIN; LEPTIN RECEPTOR; MESSENGER RNA; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; DOPAMINE; MIXED FUNCTION OXIDASE;

BODY MASS; BODY WEIGHT; CHILDHOOD OBESITY; CHROMOSOME 8; CHROMOSOME DELETION; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FOOD INTAKE; FTO GENE; FUSED TOE MOUSE; GENE; GENE LOCUS; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HUMAN; IRX3 GENE; LOSS OF FUNCTION MUTATION; MOUSE MODEL; MUTAGENESIS; NONHUMAN; OBESITY; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCUS MAPPING; REVIEW; ANIMAL; GENETICS; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; METABOLISM; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM;

ANIMALS; DOPAMINE; GENETIC LOCI; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; HUMANS; MIXED FUNCTION OXYGENASES; OBESITY; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE;

EID: 84910142437     PISSN: 15504131     EISSN: 19327420     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cmet.2014.09.010     Document Type: Review

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