Associated Papers
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
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
The c.612A>G mutation of MC4R affects constitutive activity and signaling in domestic goats.
Yan Y et al.
Animal Genetics, 2022
Human MC4R variants affect endocytosis, trafficking and dimerization revealing multiple cellular mechanisms involved in weight regulation.
Brouwers B et al.
Cell Reports, 2021
Biased signaling in naturally occurring mutations of G protein-coupled receptors associated with diverse human diseases.
Yang LK et al.
Biochimica Et Biophysica Acta. Molecular Basis of Disease, 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
Melanocortin 4 Receptor Pathway Dysfunction in Obesity: Patient Stratification Aimed at MC4R Agonist Treatment.
Ayers KL et al.
The Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism, 2018
Evaluation of a melanocortin-4 receptor (MC4R) agonist (Setmelanotide) in MC4R deficiency.
Collet TH et al.
Molecular Metabolism, 2017
Next-generation sequencing of the monogenic obesity genes LEP, LEPR, MC4R, PCSK1 and POMC in a Norwegian cohort of patients with morbid obesity and normal weight controls.
Nordang GBN et al.
Molecular Genetics and Metabolism, 2017
A novel MC4R mutation associated with childhood-onset obesity: A case report.
Doulla M et al.
Paediatrics & Child Health, 2014
Defect in MAPK signaling as a cause for monogenic obesity caused by inactivating mutations in the melanocortin-4 receptor gene.
He S et al.
International Journal of Biological Sciences, 2014
Functional studies on twenty novel naturally occurring melanocortin-4 receptor mutations.
Wang ZQ et al.
Biochimica Et Biophysica Acta, 2011
The melanocortin-4 receptor: physiology, pharmacology, and pathophysiology.
Tao YX
Endocrine Reviews, 2010
Mutations in the melanocortin 4 receptor (MC4R) gene in obese patients in Norway.
Wangensteen T et al.
Experimental and Clinical Endocrinology & Diabetes : Official Journal, German Society of Endocrinology [and] German Diabetes Association, 2009