Talk:Genetics of obesity

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)

I just moved the references accross, bibliography is shaping up. Maybe we could use some more scientific papers so our bibliography isn't all reviews? --Flora E Rodger 09:10, 9 October 2010 (UTC)

I just put a little section up re Polynesians...don't think it's 200 words but I can expand/edit later Stuart Connal 01:24, 26 October 2010 (UTC)

A good start to the article (the Pima story is intriguing), and I note that the reference list is fairly extensive. Once you have divided up the workload please post your sections, it will be good to see all the individual sections on one page and how they hang together. John Menzies 15:56, 26 October 2010 (UTC)

I just put up my monozygotic twin stuff, sorry I wasn't in this week so completley forgot until now. what other sections are we wanting to do? Ailsa Oswald 14:45, 30 October 2010 (UTC)

Related articles

You'll see that on the Related articles subpage I've placed links to all the articles from the other groups this year - and also to last year's articles. Good luck with this, I'm seeing some reference lists come up, but not all.Gareth Leng 15:55, 9 October 2010 (UTC)

Good to see you all contributing.Gareth Leng 14:11, 16 October 2010 (UTC)

I notice that thyroid disorders are neither mentioned in the article nor on the related articles page. I think these can cause obesity and there are genetic factors in some of them. Should they be added? Sandy Harris 03:22, 21 May 2011 (UTC)

The hypothalamus is in related articles, but pituitary is not. I'm sure a pituitary problem could affect thyroid, hence obesity. What about adrenals and others? Sandy Harris 06:59, 20 July 2011 (UTC)