Indication for Linkage of the Human OB Gene Region With Extreme Obesity

Clément, Karine; Garner, Chad; Hager, Jörg; Philippi, Anne; LeDuc, Carrie; H. Carey, Alisoun; JR Harris, Timothy; Jury, Corinne; R. Cardon, Lon; Basdevant, Arnaud; Démenais, Florence; Guy-Grand, B; North, Michael; Froguel, Philippe

doi:10.2337/diab.45.5.687

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Indication for Linkage of the Human OB Gene Region With Extreme Obesity

Published in Diabetes • May 1, 1996

Authors:

Karine Clément

Chad Garner

Jörg Hager

Abstract

Obesity is one of the most significant risk factors for hypertension, coronary heart disease, and NIDDM (Frayn KN, Coppack SW: Insulin resistance, adipose tissue and coronary heart disease. Clin Sci 82:1-8, 1992; Kaplan NM: The deadly quartet: upper-body obesity, glucose intolerance, hypertriglyceri...

Subject

Obesity

Internal medicine

Endocrinology

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