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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
9
pubmed:dateCreated
1998-11-13
pubmed:abstractText
Uncoupling protein-1 (UCP1) is uniquely expressed in brown adipose tissue (BAT) and of major importance for the tissues thermogenic capacity. This study was undertaken to detect variants in the UCP1 gene by single strand conformational polymorphism (SSCP) analysis and subsequent sequencing, and determine their potential association with obesity. Four variants predicting for amino acid substitutions were detected, of which Arg40Trp (exon 1) and Lys257Arg (exon 5) were rare mutations. In contrast, the allele frequency of a polymorphism in exon 2 predicting for an Ala64Thr substitution was 8.2% in a cohort of 293 obese children and adolescents compared to 4.1% in 134 lean individuals, while the allele frequency of a Met229Leu variant (exon 5) was not markedly different between the obese (10.4%) and lean (12.0%) study groups. Although one of the identified polymorphisms tends to have a higher frequency in obese than in lean subjects, variants of the UCP1 gene do not seem to contribute significantly to the development of early-onset obesity in the German population.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Sep
pubmed:issn
0307-0565
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
22
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
939-41
pubmed:dateRevised
2006-11-15
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed-meshheading:9756256-Adolescent, pubmed-meshheading:9756256-Adult, pubmed-meshheading:9756256-Alleles, pubmed-meshheading:9756256-Body Mass Index, pubmed-meshheading:9756256-Carrier Proteins, pubmed-meshheading:9756256-Child, pubmed-meshheading:9756256-Cohort Studies, pubmed-meshheading:9756256-Female, pubmed-meshheading:9756256-Gene Frequency, pubmed-meshheading:9756256-Humans, pubmed-meshheading:9756256-Ion Channels, pubmed-meshheading:9756256-Male, pubmed-meshheading:9756256-Membrane Proteins, pubmed-meshheading:9756256-Mitochondrial Proteins, pubmed-meshheading:9756256-Mutation, pubmed-meshheading:9756256-Obesity, pubmed-meshheading:9756256-Polymerase Chain Reaction, pubmed-meshheading:9756256-Polymorphism, Restriction Fragment Length, pubmed-meshheading:9756256-Polymorphism, Single-Stranded Conformational, pubmed-meshheading:9756256-Sequence Analysis, pubmed-meshheading:9756256-Uncoupling Agents
pubmed:year
1998
pubmed:articleTitle
Analysis of the uncoupling protein-1 (UCP1) gene in obese and lean subjects: identification of four amino acid variants.
pubmed:affiliation
Department of Medicine, University-Hospital Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't