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Reciprocal hemizygosity analysis of mouse hepatic lipase reveals influence on obesity.
Obesity research - 1 Feb 2004
Farahani Poupak, Fisler Janis S, Wong Howard, Diament Adam L, Yi Nengjun, Warden Craig H
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OBJECTIVES: We previously demonstrated coincident quantitative trait loci (QTLs) for percentage body fat, plasma hepatic lipase (HL) activity, and plasma cholesterol on mouse chromosome 7. In the present study, we investigated whether hepatic lipase (Lipc) is an obesity gene, whether Lipc interacts with an unknown gene on chromosome 7, and how HL activity is linked to the chromosome 7 locus. RESEARCH METHODS AND...
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