Dominant and recessive inheritance of morbid obesity associated with melanocortin 4 receptor deficiency.

Over 20 severely obese subjects in 11 independent kindreds have been reported to have pathogenic heterozygous mutations in the gene encoding the melanocortin 4 receptor (MC4R), making this the most common known monogenic cause of human obesity. To date, the detailed clinical phenotype of this domina...

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Những tác giả chính: Farooqi, I, Yeo, G, Keogh, J, Aminian, S, Jebb, SA, Butler, G, Cheetham, T, O'Rahilly, S
Định dạng: Journal article
Ngôn ngữ:English
Được phát hành: 2000