Talk:Genetics of obesity

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  1. Alan Black 13:15, 28 September 2010 (UTC)
  2. Flora E Rodger 13:16, 28 September 2010 (UTC)
  3. Desmond K. H. Lee 13:16, 28 September 2010 (UTC)
  4. Stuart Connal 13:17, 28 September 2010 (UTC)
  5. Ailsa Oswald 13:23, 28 September 2010 (UTC)

just started looking up articles:

FTO: the first gene contributing to common forms of human obesity R. J. F. Loos1,*, C. Bouchard2 Obesity Reviews Volume 9, Issue 3, pages 246–250, May 2008

Genetic factors in human obesity I. S. Farooqi, S. O’Rahilly Obesity Reviews Volume 8, pages 37–40, March 2007

http://ama-med.org.ar/obesidad/MC4R_Mutation.pdf Clinical Spectrum of Obesity and Mutations in the Melanocortin 4 Receptor Gene I. Sadaf Farooqi, M.D., Ph.D., Julia M. Keogh, B.Sc., Giles S.H. Yeo, Ph.D., Emma J. Lank, B.Sc., Tim Cheetham, M.D., and Stephen O'Rahilly, M.D. N Engl J Med 2003; 348:1085-1095March 20, 2003

Common variants near MC4R are associated with fat mass, weight and risk of obesity Ruth J F Loos et al. Nature Genetics 40, 768 - 775 (2008) http://www.nature.com/ng/journal/v40/n6/full/ng.140.html

http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v404/n6778/full/404644a0.html a review article called the genetics of body weight regulation.

I know these aren't written as proper references but we can decide what ones we want to use then fix them.

Flora E Rodger 13:09, 29 September 2010 (UTC)


Cyrus, you are registered both in Genetics of Obesity, and Stress and Appetite, please choose just one of these topics. Thanks. Nancy Sabatier 09:52, 1 October 2010 (UTC)

Good to see you starting: suggest you use the bibliography subpage to place your references and the external links page to post any websites and other material.
It's a large group and you will need to think about how to divide the scope; broadly you could split between population genetics and molecular genetics - population genetics - Pima Indians, polynesian populations, heritability, twin studies, thrifty gene hypothesis; molecular genetics - O'Rahilly etc, and could extend to animal studies.Gareth Leng 10:15, 1 October 2010 (UTC)

I put up two review articles on the bibliography paper (article 2 and 3) they are quite long but if we have a read over then can decide what parts we want to focus on Ailsa Oswald 11:21, 3 October 2010 (UTC)

Just found a few more review articles (articles 4,5,6). Seemed like they might be useful. Stuart Connal 12:41, 3 October 2010 (UTC)

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