Clinical and molecular genetic spectrum of congenital deficiency of the leptin receptor

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 356, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 237-247

  Farooqi, I Sadaf ^a   Wangensteen, Teresia ^g   Collins, Stephan ^b   Kimber, Wendy ^a   Matarese, Giuseppe ^i,j   Keogh, Julia M ^a   Lank, Emma ^a   Bottomley, Bill ^b   Lopez Fernandez, Judith ^k   Ferraz Amaro, Ivan ^k   Dattani, Mehul T ^c   Ercan, Oya ^l   Myhre, Anne Grethe ^h   Retterstol, Lars ^g   Stanhope, Richard ^d   Edge, Julie A ^e   McKenzie, Sheila ^f   Lessan, Nader ^m   Ghodsi, Maryam ^m   De Rosa, Veronica ^i,j   Perna, Francesco ⁱ   Fontana, Silvia ^j   Barroso, Inês ^b   Undlien, Dag E ^g   O'Rahilly, Stephen ^a   more..

^a ADDENBROOKE S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b WELLCOME TRUST SANGER INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^e JOHN RADCLIFFE HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^f ROYAL LONDON HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^g ULLEVÅL UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Norway)

^h OSLO UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Norway)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

^j CNR   (Italy)

^k HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO DE CANARIAS   (Spain)

^l ISTANBUL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^m TEHRAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

more..

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LEPTIN; LEPTIN RECEPTOR;

ARTICLE; BODY COMPOSITION; BODY FAT; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONGENITAL DISORDER; CONGENITAL LEPTIN RECEPTOR DEFICIENCY; CONSANGUINEOUS MARRIAGE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DELAYED PUBERTY; DISEASE SEVERITY; ENDOCRINE FUNCTION; ENERGY BALANCE; FEMALE; FRAMESHIFT MUTATION; GENE MUTATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; HETEROZYGOTE; HOMOZYGOTE; HORMONE DEFICIENCY; HUMAN; HYPERPHAGIA; HYPOGONADOTROPIC HYPOGONADISM; IMMUNE FUNCTION TEST; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MISSENSE MUTATION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NONSENSE MUTATION; OBESITY; ONSET AGE; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 33846409122     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: 15334406     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJMoa063988     Document Type: Article

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