LD Stein, Z Bao, D Blasiar, T Blumenthal, MR … - PLoS Biol, 2003 - biology.plosjournals.org The soil nematodes Caenorhabditis briggsae and Caenorhabditis elegans diverged
from a common ancestor roughly 100 million years ago and yet are almost
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- ►nih.gov RK Semple, VKK Chatterjee, SO'Rahilly - Journal of Clinical Investigation, 2006 - Am Soc Clin Investig The nuclear receptor family of PPARs was named for the ability of the original
member to induce hepatic peroxisome proliferation in mice in response to
xenobiotic stimuli. However, studies on the action and structure of the 3 ... Cited by 243 - Related articles - BL Direct - All 10 versions
M Stumvoll, H Häring - Diabetes, 2002 - Am Diabetes Assoc Peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor (PPAR)-γ is a transcription factor
with a key role in adipocyte differentiation. The Ala allele of the common
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I Barroso, RPS Jian'an Luan, AHH Middelberg … - PLoS Biology, 2003 - pubmedcentral.nih.gov Type 2 diabetes is an increasingly common, serious metabolic disorder with a
substantial inherited component. It is characterised by defects in both insulin
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CS Yajnik, CHD Fall, KJ Coyaji, SS Hirve, S … - International Journal of Obesity, 2003 - nature.com OBJECTIVE: To examine body size and fat measurements of babies born in rural
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T Rankinen, L Pérusse, SJ Weisnagel, EE … - Obesity, 2002 - nature.com This report constitutes the eighth update of the human obesity gene map,
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- ►endojournals.org M Gurnell, DB Savage, VKK Chatterjee, S O' … - Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism, 2003 - Endocrine Soc By the end of this decade, it has been estimated that between 200 million and
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JG Eriksson, V Lindi, M Uusitupa, TJ Forsén … - Diabetes, 2002 - Am Diabetes Assoc Type 2 diabetes is known to be associated with a small body size at birth. Body
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