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Genetics of obesity / [edited by] Struan F.A. Grant.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York : Springer, 2014.Description: viii, 128 p. : color illustrations ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 9781461486411 (hbk : alk. paper)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 616.398042 23 G763
Contents:
1. Genetic Variation and Obesity Prior to the Era of Genome-Wide Association Studies -- 2. Genetic Obesity Syndromes -- 3. Genome-Wide Association Studies of Obesity -- 4. Copy Number Variants and their Contribution to the Risk of Obesity -- 5. Genetics of Childhood Obesity -- 6. Genetic Pleiotropies of Obesity -- 7. Functional Follow-up of Genetic Variants Using FTO as the Prime Example-- Index.
Summary: This book provides a comprehensive overview of efforts aimed at uncovering genetic variants associated with obesity, which have been particularly successful in the past 5 years with the advent of genome-wide association studies (GWAS). The Genetics of Obesity covers this state of the art technology and its application to obesity in great detail. Topics include genetics of childhood obesity, genetics of syndromic obesity, copy number variants and extreme obesity, co-morbidities of obesity genetics, and functional follow-up of genetic variants.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

1. Genetic Variation and Obesity Prior to the Era of Genome-Wide Association Studies --
2. Genetic Obesity Syndromes --
3. Genome-Wide Association Studies of Obesity --
4. Copy Number Variants and their Contribution to the Risk of Obesity --
5. Genetics of Childhood Obesity --
6. Genetic Pleiotropies of Obesity --
7. Functional Follow-up of Genetic Variants Using FTO as the Prime Example--
Index.

This book provides a comprehensive overview of efforts aimed at uncovering genetic variants associated with obesity, which have been particularly successful in the past 5 years with the advent of genome-wide association studies (GWAS). The Genetics of Obesity covers this state of the art technology and its application to obesity in great detail. Topics include genetics of childhood obesity, genetics of syndromic obesity, copy number variants and extreme obesity, co-morbidities of obesity genetics, and functional follow-up of genetic variants.

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