High Prevalence of Rare Monogenic Forms of Obesity in Obese Guadeloupean Afro-Caribbean Children - Concepedia

Concepedia

Publication | Open Access

High Prevalence of Rare Monogenic Forms of Obesity in Obese Guadeloupean Afro-Caribbean Children

DOI Full Paper Access

33

Citations

21

References

2017

Year

L. Foucan, Laurent Larifla, Emmanuelle Durand, Christine Rambhojan, C. Armand, Carl-Thony Michel, Rachel Billy, Véronique Dhennin, Franck De Graeve, Iandry Rabearivelo,

The Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism

Abstract

We were able to detect pathogenic or likely pathogenic mutations linked to severe obesity in >15% of this population, which is much higher than what we observed in Europeans (∼5%).

References

	Year	Citations

Page 1