Research Article: Oligogenic inheritance in severe adult obesity
Introduction:
Obesity is a genetically heterogeneous disorder that is known to occur in multifactorial, monogenic, or syndromic forms. The increasing availability of whole-exome sequencing (sequencing of the genomic regions encoding proteins and closely linked regulatory regions), has improved our understanding of those sub-forms of obesity that are inherited in a simple Mendelian fashion. However, we are still some way from appreciating the full complexity of its genetic architecture, including explanations for the variable…
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