期刊
TRENDS IN NEUROENDOCRINOLOGY
卷 1220, 期 -, 页码 162-171出版社
BLACKWELL SCIENCE PUBL
DOI: 10.1111/j.1749-6632.2010.05903.x
关键词
FTO; obesity; GWAS; gene; food intake
资金
- U.K. Medical Research Council Centre for Obesity and Related metabolic Disorders (MRC-CORD)
- European Union [FP7- HEALTH- 2009- 241592 EurOCHIP]
Genome-wide association studies have been very powerful, uncovering potentially new biology that would not have been possible using a candidate gene approach. A prime example of this is the gene FTO (fat mass and obesity associated), which first came to light in 2007, when single nucleotide polymorphisms in its first intron were robustly associated with body mass index and obesity. Subsequently, as it became clear that this association with body weight, and increasingly food intake, was replicable across multiple populations and different age groups, attention was turned to studying the biology of FTO, about which absolutely nothing was known. This review focuses on the genetic and biochemical approaches as well as animal models that have been used by us and others since 2007 to try and uncover the complex biology of FTO.
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