Associated Papers
Targeted Next-Generation Sequencing of the Leptin-Melanocortin Pathway in Severe Obesity.
Faccioli N et al.
Obesity (silver Spring, Md.), 2026
Obesity due to MC4R deficiency is associated with reduced cholesterol, triglycerides and cardiovascular disease risk.
Zorn S et al.
Nature Medicine, 2025
High-resolution deep mutational scanning of the melanocortin-4 receptor enables target characterization for drug discovery.
Howard CJ et al.
Elife, 2025
Molecular Genetic Architecture of Morbid Obesity in Russian Children.
Minniakhmetov IR et al.
Biomedicines, 2025
Medical semiology of patients with monogenic obesity: A systematic review.
Renard E et al.
Obesity Reviews : an Official Journal of the International Association for the Study of Obesity, 2024
Sequencing methods, functional characterization, prevalence, and penetrance of rare coding mutations in panels of monogenic obesity genes from the leptin-melanocortin pathway: A systematic review.
Dosda S et al.
Obesity Reviews : an Official Journal of the International Association for the Study of Obesity, 2024
Unreliability of genotyping arrays for detecting very rare variants in human genetic studies: Example from a recent study of MC4R.
Weedon MN et al.
Cell, 2021
The role of polygenic susceptibility to obesity among carriers of pathogenic mutations in MC4R in the UK Biobank population.
Chami N et al.
Plos Medicine, 2020
Human Gain-of-Function MC4R Variants Show Signaling Bias and Protect against Obesity.
Lotta LA et al.
Cell, 2019
Signal Transduction and Pathogenic Modifications at the Melanocortin-4 Receptor: A Structural Perspective.
Heyder N et al.
Frontiers in Endocrinology, 2019
Early childhood BMI trajectories in monogenic obesity due to leptin, leptin receptor, and melanocortin 4 receptor deficiency.
Kohlsdorf K et al.
International Journal of Obesity (2005), 2018
Pharmacological chaperones for the misfolded melanocortin-4 receptor associated with human obesity.
Huang H et al.
Biochimica Et Biophysica Acta. Molecular Basis of Disease, 2017
Prevalence and phenotypic characterization of MC4R variants in a large pediatric cohort.
Vollbach H et al.
International Journal of Obesity (2005), 2017
How genetic errors in GPCRs affect their function: Possible therapeutic strategies.
Stoy H et al.
Genes & Diseases, 2015
A novel MC4R mutation associated with childhood-onset obesity: A case report.
Doulla M et al.
Paediatrics & Child Health, 2014
The role of common and rare MC4R variants and FTO polymorphisms in extreme form of obesity.
Rovite V et al.
Molecular Biology Reports, 2014
Highly sensitive diagnosis of 43 monogenic forms of diabetes or obesity through one-step PCR-based enrichment in combination with next-generation sequencing.
Bonnefond A et al.
Diabetes Care, 2014
Do common variants separate between obese melanocortin-4 receptor gene mutation carriers and non-carriers? The impact of cryptic relatedness.
Mühlhaus J et al.
Hormone Research in Paediatrics, 2012
Investigation of a genome wide association signal for obesity: synthetic association and haplotype analyses at the melanocortin 4 receptor gene locus.
Scherag A et al.
Plos One, 2010
The melanocortin-4 receptor: physiology, pharmacology, and pathophysiology.
Tao YX
Endocrine Reviews, 2010
Prevalence of melanocortin-4 receptor deficiency in Europeans and their age-dependent penetrance in multigenerational pedigrees.
Stutzmann F et al.
Diabetes, 2008
Role of third intracellular loop of the melanocortin 4 receptor in the regulation of constitutive activity.
Kim DH et al.
Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications, 2008
A novel mutation Thr162Arg of the melanocortin 4 receptor gene in a Spanish children and adolescent population.
Ochoa MC et al.
Clinical Endocrinology, 2007
[Melanocortin-4 receptor gene mutations associated with obesity].
Kobayashi H
Nihon Rinsho. Japanese Journal of Clinical Medicine, 2006
Pharmacological characterization of 40 human melanocortin-4 receptor polymorphisms with the endogenous proopiomelanocortin-derived agonists and the agouti-related protein (AGRP) antagonist.
Xiang Z et al.
Biochemistry, 2006
Prevalence, spectrum, and functional characterization of melanocortin-4 receptor gene mutations in a representative population-based sample and obese adults from Germany.
Hinney A et al.
The Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism, 2006
Obesity-associated mutations in the human melanocortin-4 receptor gene.
MacKenzie RG
Peptides, 2006
Gene polymorphisms and their effects in the melanocortin system.
Carroll L et al.
Peptides, 2005
Obesity-associated mutations in the melanocortin 4 receptor provide novel insights into its function.
Govaerts C et al.
Peptides, 2005
Large quantitative effect of melanocortin-4 receptor gene mutations on body mass index.
Dempfle A et al.
Journal of Medical Genetics, 2004
Binge-eating episodes are not characteristic of carriers of melanocortin-4 receptor gene mutations.
Hebebrand J et al.
Molecular Psychiatry, 2004
Melanocortin-4 receptor gene: case-control study and transmission disequilibrium test confirm that functionally relevant mutations are compatible with a major gene effect for extreme obesity.
Hinney A et al.
The Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism, 2003
Intracellular retention is a common characteristic of childhood obesity-associated MC4R mutations.
Lubrano-Berthelier C et al.
Human Molecular Genetics, 2003
[Genetic variations in energy balance regulation].
Pankov IuA
Biomeditsinskaia Khimiia, 0