Association of the fat mass and obesity-associated gene risk allele, rs9939609A, and reward-related brain structures

Obesity

Volumn 23, Issue 10, 2015, Pages 2118-2122

  De Groot, Corjan ^a   Felius, Abraham ^a   Trompet, Stella ^a   De Craen, Anton J M ^a   Blauw, Gerard J ^a   Van Buchem, Mark A ^a   Delemarre Van De Waal, Henriette A ^a   Van Der Grond, Jeroen ^a  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE; AGED; ALLELE; AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; BRAIN SIZE; CAUDATE NUCLEUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DUTCHMAN; FEMALE; GENDER; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC RISK; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; GLOBUS PALLIDUS; GRAY MATTER; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; LINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; PUTAMEN; REWARD; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; THALAMUS; WHITE MATTER; BRAIN; COMPLICATION; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; GENETICS; OBESITY; PATHOLOGY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RISK FACTOR; VERY ELDERLY;

FTO PROTEIN, HUMAN; PROTEIN;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BRAIN; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; MALE; OBESITY; PROTEINS; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 84942683847     PISSN: 19307381     EISSN: 1930739X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/oby.21191     Document Type: Article

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