- ►diabetesjournals.org CS Fox, NL Heard-Costa, PWF Wilson, D Levy, … - Diabetes, 2004 - Am Diabetes Assoc While several loci for BMI have been identified, it is not known whether genes
underlie the process of regional fat deposition. We sought to test whether waist
circumference, a measure of central adiposity, contains a genetic ... Cited by 23 - Related articles - BL Direct - All 4 versions
- ►endojournals.org CS Fox, Q Yang, LA Cupples, CY Guo, LD … - Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism, 2005 - Endocrine Soc Results: Men homozygous for the PvuII C allele (frequency, 0.45) had lower waist
circumference (99.3 cm), compared with TT homozygous men (99.8 cm) and
heterozygotes (100.6 cm) (P < 0.004). Similar results were obtained with ... Cited by 28 - Related articles - BL Direct - All 5 versions
R Moslehi, AM Goldstein, M Beerman, L … - BMC Genet, 2003 - biomedcentral.com Address: 1 Genetic Epidemiology Branch, Division of Cancer Epidemiology and
Genetics, National Cancer Institute, NIH, DHHS, Bethesda, Maryland, USA and 2
Core Genotyping Facility, Advanced Technology Center, National Cancer ... Cited by 13 - Related articles - View as HTML - All 5 versions
T Okura, M Koda, F Ando, N Niino, S Ohta, H … - International Journal of Obesity, 2003 - nature.com Received 22 October 2002; Revised 23 March 2003; Accepted 4 April 2003. ...
OBJECTIVE: To examine whether polymorphisms of the estrogen receptor (ER) gene
are associated with body fat distribution. ... DESIGN: Cross-sectional, ... Cited by 54 - Related articles - BL Direct - All 3 versions
- ►diabetesjournals.org CJ Gallagher, KL Keene, JC Mychaleckyj, CD … - Diabetes, 2007 - Am Diabetes Assoc The estrogen receptor-α gene (ESR1) was selected as a positional candidate
under a type 2 diabetes linkage peak at 6q24-27. A total of 42 ESR1 single
nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) were genotyped in 380 African-American type ... Cited by 15 - Related articles - BL Direct - All 4 versions
- ►diabetesjournals.org WD Li, C Dong, D Li, H Zhao, RA Price - Diabetes, 2004 - Am Diabetes Assoc Obesity is a growing health problem in the US As a complex trait, obesity
involves multiple genes and gene-gene and gene-environment interactions that
contribute to its pathogenesis. Here we report significant linkage from a ... Cited by 23 - Related articles - BL Direct - All 8 versions
- ►ahajournals.org KE North, KM Rose, IB Borecki, A Oberman, … - Hypertension, 2004 - Am Heart Assoc Previous analysis in the Hypertension Genetic Epidemiology Network (HyperGEN) of
the National Heart Lung and Blood Institute (NHLBI) Family Blood Pressure
Program, a multicenter study of genetic and environmental factors related ... Cited by 12 - Related articles - BL Direct - All 6 versions
LJ Martin, MC Mahaney, L Almasy, JE Hixson … - Obesity, 2002 - nature.com Objective: Studies have reported the existence of marked sexual dimorphism in
serum leptin levels in humans with women having approximately two to three times
the levels of men. We have shown that this sexual dimorphism has a strong ... Cited by 12 - Related articles - BL Direct - All 3 versions
F Geller, A Dempfle, T Görg - BMC genetics, 2003 - biomedcentral.com Evidence for linkage to BMI was found on chromosomes 16 and 6 with maximum LOD
scores of 3.2 and 2.7, respectively. For height, all markers showing a LOD score
greater than 1 in our analysis correspond to previously reported linkage ... Cited by 30 - Related articles - Cached - All 5 versions
- ►nih.gov LD Atwood, NL Heard-Costa, LA Cupples, CE … - The American Journal of Human Genetics, 2002 - Elsevier We performed a genomewide linkage analysis of six separate measurements of body
mass index (BMI) taken over a span of 28 years, from 1971 to 1998, in the
Framingham Heart Study. Variance-components linkage analysis was performed ... Cited by 94 - Related articles - BL Direct - All 6 versions
