Prevalence of pathogenetic MC4R mutations in Italian children with early Onset obesity, tall stature and familial history of obesity

BACKGROUND: Melanocortin-4-receptor (MC4R) mutations represent the most frequent genetic cause of non-syndromic early onset obesity. Children carrying MC4R mutations seem to show a particular phenotype characterized by early onset, severe obesity and high stature. To verify whether MC4R mutations ar...

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Autores principales: Santoro, Nicola, Cirillo, Grazia, Xiang, Zhimin, Tanas, Rita, Greggio, Nella, Morino, Giuseppe, Iughetti, Lorenzo, Vottero, Alessandra, Salvatoni, Alessandro, Di Pietro, Mario, Balsamo, Antonio, Crinò, Antonino, Grandone, Anna, Haskell-Luevano, Carrie, Perrone, Laura, del Giudice, Emanuele Miraglia
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2009
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2664798/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19284607
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2350-10-25

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