Human leptin receptor gene in obese Japanese subjects: Evidence against either obesity-causing mutations or association of sequence variants with obesity

Diabetologia

Volumn 40, Issue 10, 1997, Pages 1204-1210

  Matsuoka, N ^a   Ogawa, Y ^a   Hosoda, K ^a   Matsuda, J ^a   Masuzaki, H ^a   Miyawaki, T ^a   Azuma, N ^a   Natsui, K ^a   Nishimura, H ^a   Yoshimasa, Y ^a   Nishi, S ^a   Thompson, D B ^b   Nakao, K ^a  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF DIABETES AND DIGESTIVE AND KIDNEY DISEASES   (United States)

Author keywords

Leptin; Leptin receptor; Ob R; Obesity; Sequence variant

Indexed keywords

GENE PRODUCT; LEPTIN; RECEPTOR PROTEIN;

ADIPOCYTE; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENERGY EXPENDITURE; EXON; FEMALE; FOOD INTAKE; GENE MUTATION; GENE SEQUENCE; HUMAN; HYPERLIPIDEMIA; HYPERTENSION; MALE; NON INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; OBESITY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN POLYMORPHISM; SATIETY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ALLELES; CARRIER PROTEINS; DNA PRIMERS; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; JAPAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MUTATION; OBESITY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POLYMORPHISM, RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE-STRANDED CONFORMATIONAL; RECEPTORS, CELL SURFACE;

EID: 9844266242     PISSN: 0012186X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s001250050808     Document Type: Article

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