Selected Publications

Chuanhui Dong, Wei-Dong Li, Ding Li and R. Arlen Price.: Interaction between Obesity-Susceptibility Loci in Chromosome Regions 2p25-p24 and 13q13-q21. European Journal of Human Genetics 13: 102-108, January 2005.

Chuanhui Dong, Wei-Dong Li, Frank Geller, Lei Lei, Ding Li, Olga Y. Gorlova, Johannes Hebebrand, Christopher I. Amos, Robert D. Nicholls, and R. Arlen Price: Possible genomic imprinting of three human obesity-related genetic loci. Am. J. Hum. Genet 76: 427-437, March 2005.

Wei-Dong Li, Chuanhui Dong, Ding Li, Cathleen Garrigan and R. Arlen Price: A genome scan for serum triglyceride in obese nuclear families. Journal of Lipid Research 24: 432-438. March 2005.

Wermter AK, Reichwald K, Buch T, Geller F, Platzer C, Huse K, Hess C, Remschmidt H, Gudermann T, Preibisch G, Siegfried W, Goldschmidt HP, Li WD, Price RA, Biebermann H, Krude H, Vollmert C, Wichmann HE, Illig T, Sorensen TI, Astrup A, Larsen LH, Pedersen O, Eberle D, Clement K, Blundell J, Wabitsch M, Schafer H, Platzer M, Hinney A, Hebebrand J.: Mutation analysis of the MCHR1 gene in human obesity. Eur J Endocrinol 152(6): 851-862, June 2005.

Wei-Dong Li, Chuanhui Dong, Ding Li, Hongyu Zhao and R. Arlen Price: An obesity related locus in chromosome region 12q23-24. Diabetes, 2004, 53:812-820. Diabetes 53: 812-820, 2004.

Wei-Dong Li, Chuanhui Dong, Ding Li, Cathleen Garrigan and R. Arlen Price: A quantitative trait influencing fasting plasma glucose in chromosome region 18q22-23. Diabetes, 2004, 53:2487-2491. Diabetes 53: 2487-2491, 2004.

WD Li, C. Dong, D. Li, C. Garrigan and R.A. Price: A GAD2 variant confers obesity resistance. The American Sociaty of Human Genetics, 54th Annual Meeting, Toronto, Canada Page: 144, October 2004.

Chuanhui Dong, Shuang Wang, Wei-Dong Li, Ding Li, Hongyu Zhao and R. Arlen Price. : Interacting genetic loci on chromosome 20 and 10 influence extreme human obesity. Am J Hum Genet. 72: 115-124, 2003.

Wei-Dong Li Ding Li, Shuang Wang, Shuanglin Zhang, Hongyu Zhao and R. Arlen Price. : Fine linkage and disequilibrium mapping of genes influencing human obesity in chromosome region 7q22.1-7q35. Diabetes 52: 1557-1561, 2003.

R. Arlen Price, Wei-Dong Li and Robin Kilker: An X-chromosome scan reveals a locus for fat distribution in chromosome region Xp21-22. Diabetes 51: 1989-1991, 2002.