Variations in the FTO gene are associated with severe obesity in the Japanese.

Authors

• Hotta, Kikuko¹
• Nakata, Yoshio²
• Matsuo, Tomoaki²
• Kamohara, Seika³
• Kotani, Kazuaki⁴
• Komatsu, Ryoya⁵
• Itoh, Naoto⁶
• Mineo, Ikuo⁷
• Wada, Jun⁸
• Masuzaki, Hiroaki⁹
• Yoneda, Masato¹⁰
• Nakajima, Atsushi¹⁰
• Miyazaki, Shigeru¹¹
• Tokunaga, Katsuto¹²
• Kawamoto, Manabu¹³
• Funahashi, Tohru⁴
• Hamaguchi, Kazuyuki¹⁴
• Yamada, Kentaro¹⁵
• Hanafusa, Toshiaki¹⁶
• Oikawa, Shinichi¹⁷
• Yoshimatsu, Hironobu¹⁸
• Nakao, Kazuwa⁹
• Sakata, Toshiie¹⁸
• Matsuzawa, Yuji⁴
• Tanaka, Kiyoji²
• Kamatani, Naoyuki^{13, 19}
• Nakamura, Yusuke²⁰
And 7 more

• ¹ Laboratory for Obesity, SNP Research Center, RIKEN, 1-7-22 Suehiro, Tsurumi-ku, Yokohama, Kanagawa, 230-0045, Japan. [email protected] , (Japan)
• ² Institute of Health and Sport Sciences, University of Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan. , (Japan)
• ³ Medicine and Health Science Institute, Tokyo Medical University, Tokyo, Japan. , (Japan)
• ⁴ Department of Metabolic Medicine, Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka University, Osaka, Japan. , (Japan)
• ⁵ Rinku General Medical Center, Osaka, Japan. , (Japan)
• ⁶ Toyonaka Municipal Hospital, Osaka, Japan. , (Japan)
• ⁷ Otemae Hospital, Osaka, Japan. , (Japan)
• ⁸ Department of Medicine and Clinical Science, Okayama University Graduate School of Medicine and Dentistry, Okayama, Japan. , (Japan)
• ⁹ Department of Medicine and Clinical Science, Kyoto University Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto, Japan. , (Japan)
• ¹⁰ Division of Gastroenterology, Yokohama City University Graduate School of Medicine, Yokohama, Japan. , (Japan)
• ¹¹ Tokyo Postal Services Agency Hospital, Tokyo, Japan. , (Japan)
• ¹² Itami City Hospital, Hyogo, Japan. , (Japan)
• ¹³ Institute of Rheumatology, Tokyo Women's Medical University, Tokyo, Japan. , (Japan)
• ¹⁴ Department of Community Health and Gerontological Nursing, Faculty of Medicine, Oita University, Oita, Japan. , (Japan)
• ¹⁵ Division of Endocrinology and Metabolism, Department of Medicine, Kurume University, Fukuoka, Japan. , (Japan)
• ¹⁶ First Department of Internal Medicine, Osaka Medical College, Osaka, Japan. , (Japan)
• ¹⁷ Division of Endocrinology and Metabolism, Department of Medicine, Nippon Medical School, Tokyo, Japan. , (Japan)
• ¹⁸ Department of Anatomy, Biology and Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Oita University, Oita, Japan. , (Japan)
• ¹⁹ Laboratory for Statistical Analysis, SNP Research Center, RIKEN, Tokyo, Japan. , (Japan)
• ²⁰ Laboratory for Molecular Medicine, Human Genome Center, The Institute of Medical Science, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan. , (Japan)

Type

Published Article

Journal

Journal of human genetics

Publication Date

Jan 01, 2008

Volume

53

Issue

6

Pages

546–553

Identifiers

DOI: 10.1007/s10038-008-0283-1

PMID: 18379722

Source

Medline

Language

English

License

Unknown