Human neuropeptide Y signal peptide gain-of-function polymorphism is associated with increased body mass index: possible mode of function

Neuropeptide Y (NPY) has been implicated in the control of food intake and energy balance based on many observations in animals. We have studied single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) within the regulatory and coding sequences of the human NPY gene. One variant (1128 T>C), which causes an amino a...

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Veröffentlicht in:Regulatory peptides 2005-04, Vol.127 (1), p.45-53
Hauptverfasser: Ding, Bo, Kull, Björn, Liu, Zhurong, Mottagui-Tabar, Salim, Thonberg, Håkan, Gu, Harvest F., Brookes, Anthony J., Grundemar, Lars, Karlsson, Christina, Hamsten, Anders, Arner, Peter, Östenson, Claes-Göran, Efendic, Suad, Monné, Magnus, von Heijne, Gunnar, Eriksson, Per, Wahlestedt, Claes
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