A Common Variant and the Transcript Levels of MC4R Gene Are Associated With Adiposity in Children: The IDEFICS Study

Fabio Lauria; Alfonso Siani; Catalina Pico; Wolfgang Ahrens; K. Bammann; Stefaan De Henauw; Ronja Foraita; Licia Iacoviello; Yannis Kourides; Staffan Marild; Dénes Molnár; Luis A. Moreno; Yannis Pitsiladis; Juana  Sánchez; Toomas Veidebaum; Guan Wang; Paola Russo; IDEFICS consortium

doi:10.1210/jc.2016-1992

A Common Variant and the Transcript Levels of MC4R Gene Are Associated With Adiposity in Children: The IDEFICS Study

Fabio Lauria
, Alfonso Siani
, Catalina Pico
, Wolfgang Ahrens
, K. Bammann
, Stefaan De Henauw
, Ronja Foraita
, Licia Iacoviello
, Yannis Kourides
, Staffan Marild
, Dénes Molnár
, Luis A. Moreno
, Yannis Pitsiladis
, Juana Sánchez
, Toomas Veidebaum
, Guan Wang
, Paola Russo
, IDEFICS consortium

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Abstract

The melanocortin-4 receptor gene (MC4R) plays a pivotal role in the regulation of body fat and food and energy intake.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	4229-4236
Number of pages	8
Journal	Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism
Volume	101
Issue number	11
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1210/jc.2016-1992
Publication status	Published - 1 Sept 2016

Keywords

alleles
obesity
body mass index procedure
carbohydrate
diet
child
energy intake
body fat
genotype determination
mc4r gene
anthropometric measures

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Lauria, F., Siani, A., Pico, C., Ahrens, W., Bammann, K., De Henauw, S., Foraita, R., Iacoviello, L., Kourides, Y., Marild, S., Molnár, D., Moreno, L. A., Pitsiladis, Y., Sánchez, J., Veidebaum, T., Wang, G., Russo, P., & IDEFICS consortium (2016). A Common Variant and the Transcript Levels of MC4R Gene Are Associated With Adiposity in Children: The IDEFICS Study. Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism, 101(11), 4229-4236. https://doi.org/10.1210/jc.2016-1992

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A Common Variant and the Transcript Levels of MC4R Gene Are Associated With Adiposity in Children: The IDEFICS Study

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