Thai family-based study

Genetic variant screening of MC3R and MC4R genes in early-onset obese children and their relatives among a Thai population: family-based study

S. Wannaiampikul, Phonrat, B., Tungtrongchitr, A., Limwongse, C., Chongviriyaphan, N., Santiprabhob, J., and Tungtrongchitr, R., Genetic variant screening of MC3R and MC4R genes in early-onset obese children and their relatives among a Thai population: family-based study, vol. 14, pp. 18090-18102, 2015.

MC3R (melanocortin-3 receptor) and MC4R (melanocortin-4 receptor) play important roles in energy homeostasis. Severe early-onset obesity, known as monogenic obesity when it is the consequence of a mutation in a single-gene product, may result when energy homeostasis is disrupted. The purpose of our study was to screen for variations of the MC3R and MC4R genes and observe the mode of inheritance of variations in affected families.

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