The association of common variants in PCSK1 with obesity: A HuGE review and meta-analysis

American Journal of Epidemiology

Volumn 180, Issue 11, 2014, Pages 1051-1065

  Stijnen, Pieter ^a   Tuand, Krizia ^a   Varga, Tibor V ^b   Franks, Paul W ^b,c,d   Aertgeerts, Bert ^e   Creemers, John W M ^a  

^a and Deprest)   (Belgium)

^b LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c UMEÅ UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^d HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

body mass index; genetic association studies; genetic epidemiology; genome; human; obesity; PCSK1; proprotein convertase 1 3; waist circumference

Indexed keywords

BODY MASS; CHILD HEALTH; DATA SET; ENZYME ACTIVITY; EPIDEMIOLOGY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENOME; IMMIGRANT POPULATION; LITERATURE REVIEW; META-ANALYSIS; OBESITY; PROTEIN;

ADULTHOOD; ARTICLE; ASIAN; BODY MASS; CHILDHOOD OBESITY; EMBASE; GENE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC EPIDEMIOLOGY; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GROUPS BY AGE; HUMAN; MEDLINE; OBESITY; POPULATION; PUBLICATION; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; SUBTILISIN KEXIN TYPE 1 GENE; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; WAIST CIRCUMFERENCE; WEB OF SCIENCE; GENETICS; META ANALYSIS;

ASIA;

PCSK1 PROTEIN, HUMAN; PROPROTEIN CONVERTASE 1;

BODY MASS INDEX; HUMANS; OBESITY; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; PROPROTEIN CONVERTASE 1; WAIST CIRCUMFERENCE;

EID: 84925222316     PISSN: 00029262     EISSN: 14766256     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/aje/kwu237     Document Type: Article

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