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. 2006 Dec:3 Suppl 4:528-36.

Genetic aspects of severe childhood obesity

I Sadaf Farooqi  1
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Genetic aspects of severe childhood obesity

I Sadaf Farooqi. Pediatr Endocrinol Rev. 2006 Dec.

Abstract

Genetic factors are involved in the regulation of body weight and in determining individual responses to environmental factors such as diet and exercise. The identification and characterization of monogenic obesity syndromes has led to an improved understanding of the precise nature of the inherited component of severe obesity and has had undoubted medical benefits, whilst helping to dispel the notion that obesity represents an individual defect in behaviour with no biological basis. For individuals at highest risk of the complications of severe obesity, such findings provide a starting point for providing more rational mechanism based therapies as has successfully been achieved for one disorder, congenital leptin deficiency.

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