Screening of 31 genes involved in monogenic forms of obesity in 23 Pakistani probands with early-onset childhood obesity: a case report

• প্রধান লেখক: Robina Khan Niazi (লেখক), Anette Prior Gjesing (লেখক), Mette Hollensted (লেখক), Christian Theil Have (লেখক), Dmitrii Borisevich (লেখক), Niels Grarup (লেখক), Oluf Pedersen (লেখক), Asmat Ullah (লেখক), Gulbin Shahid (লেখক), Ifrah Shafqat (লেখক), Asma Gul (লেখক), Torben Hansen (লেখক)
• বিন্যাস: গ্রন্থ
• প্রকাশিত: BMC, 2019-09-01T00:00:00Z.
• বিষয়গুলি: article
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Abstract Background Consanguine families display a high degree of homozygosity which increases the risk of family members suffering from autosomal recessive disorders. Thus, homozygous mutations in monogenic obesity genes may be a more frequent cause of childhood obesity in a consanguineous populati...