Exon skipping and severe childhood-onset obesity caused by a leptin receptor mutation

American Journal of Medical Genetics, Part A

Volumn 161, Issue 10, 2013, Pages 2672-2674

  Kakar, Naseebullah ^a,b   Ahmad, Jamil ^b   Kubisch, Christian ^a   Borck, Guntram ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ULM   (Germany)

^b BALOCHISTAN UNIVERSITY OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY   (Pakistan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LEPTIN RECEPTOR;

ADOLESCENT; BODY MASS; CHILDHOOD OBESITY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; EXON; FEMALE; GENE LOCUS; GENE MUTATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; HUMAN; LEPTIN RECEPTOR GENE; LETTER; MALE; MOLECULAR DIAGNOSIS; MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; ONSET AGE; PEDIGREE ANALYSIS; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; WEIGHT GAIN;

AGE OF ONSET; ALTERNATIVE SPLICING; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CONSANGUINITY; DNA MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; EXONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MUTATION; OBESITY; RECEPTORS, LEPTIN; RNA SPLICE SITES;

EID: 84884989624     PISSN: 15524825     EISSN: 15524833     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ajmg.a.36125     Document Type: Letter

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