Type II diabetes, essential hypertension, and obesity as "syndromes of impaired genetic homeostasis": the "thrifty genotype" hypothesis enters the 21st century

Perspect Biol Med. 1998 Autumn;42(1):44-74. doi: 10.1353/pbm.1998.0060.
No abstract available

Publication types

  • Review

MeSH terms

  • Diabetes Mellitus, Type 2 / genetics*
  • Forecasting
  • Genetics / trends
  • Genotype
  • Homeostasis / genetics*
  • Homeostasis / physiology
  • Humans
  • Hypertension / genetics*
  • Microvascular Angina / genetics
  • Obesity / genetics*
  • Syndrome