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"Treasure Your Exceptions"-Studying Human Extreme Phenotypes to Illuminate Metabolic Health and Disease: The 2019 Banting Medal for Scientific Achievement Lecture

scientific article published on 01 January 2021

20 years of leptin: human disorders of leptin action

scientific article published in October 2014

20 years of leptin: what we know and what the future holds.

scientific article published on 20 August 2014

A Deletion in the Canine POMC Gene Is Associated with Weight and Appetite in Obesity-Prone Labrador Retriever Dogs

scientific article (publication date: 10 May 2016)

A Low-Frequency Inactivating AKT2 Variant Enriched in the Finnish Population Is Associated With Fasting Insulin Levels and Type 2 Diabetes Risk

scientific article published on 24 March 2017

A POMC variant implicates beta-melanocyte-stimulating hormone in the control of human energy balance

scientific article published in February 2006

A Pharmacogenetic Approach to the Treatment of Patients with PPARG Mutations.

scientific article published on 5 April 2018

A Quantitative Trait Locus on Chromosome 18q for Physical Activity and Dietary Intake in Hispanic Children*

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A clinical approach to severe insulin resistance

scientific article published on January 2007

A comparative study of the central effects of specific proopiomelancortin (POMC)-derived melanocortin peptides on food intake and body weight in pomc null mice

scientific article published on 7 September 2006

A de novo mutation affecting human TrkB associated with severe obesity and developmental delay

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A deletion of the HBII-85 class of small nucleolar RNAs (snoRNAs) is associated with hyperphagia, obesity and hypogonadism

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A family with severe insulin resistance and diabetes due to a mutation in AKT2.

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A frameshift mutation in MC4R associated with dominantly inherited human obesity ⬇️

scientific article published on October 1, 1998

A genome-wide association meta-analysis identifies new childhood obesity loci

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A genome-wide association study reveals variants in ARL15 that influence adiponectin levels

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A genomewide scan for loci predisposing to type 2 diabetes in a U.K. population (the Diabetes UK Warren 2 Repository): analysis of 573 pedigrees provides independent replication of a susceptibility locus on chromosome 1q

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A genomic approach to therapeutic target validation identifies a glucose-lowering GLP1R variant protective for coronary heart disease

scientific article published on June 2016

A new highly penetrant form of obesity due to deletions on chromosome 16p11.2.

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A prevalent variant in PPP1R3A impairs glycogen synthesis and reduces muscle glycogen content in humans and mice

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A truncation mutation in TBC1D4 in a family with acanthosis nigricans and postprandial hyperinsulinemia.

scholarly article

AMPK is required for exercise to enhance insulin sensitivity in skeletal muscles

scientific article published on February 2017

Abdominal subcutaneous adipose tissue morphology in a patient with a dominant-negative mutation (P467L) in the nuclear receptor peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor-gamma (PPARG) gene

scientific article published on 12 February 2010

Activation of peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor (PPAR)delta promotes reversal of multiple metabolic abnormalities, reduces oxidative stress, and increases fatty acid oxidation in moderately obese men.

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Acute effects of PYY3-36 on food intake and hypothalamic neuropeptide expression in the mouse.

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Adipogenesis at a glance

scientific article published on August 2011

Adiponectin receptor genes: mutation screening in syndromes of insulin resistance and association studies for type 2 diabetes and metabolic traits in UK populations

scientific article published on 10 January 2007

Adipose depot-specific expression of cIAP2 in human preadipocytes and modulation of expression by serum factors and TNFα

scientific article published on 01 July 2001

Adult onset global loss of the fto gene alters body composition and metabolism in the mouse

scientific article (publication date: 2013)

An activating mutation of AKT2 and human hypoglycemia.

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An appreciation of Robert Turner

scientific article published on November 2008

Analysis of TBC1D4 in patients with severe insulin resistance.

scientific article published on 27 March 2010

Analysis of genetic variation in Akt2/PKB-beta in severe insulin resistance, lipodystrophy, type 2 diabetes, and related metabolic phenotypes

scientific article published on March 2007

Analysis of naturally occurring mutations in the human lipodystrophy protein seipin reveals multiple potential pathogenic mechanisms

scientific article published on 30 August 2013

Analysis of parent-offspring trios provides evidence for linkage and association between the insulin gene and type 2 diabetes mediated exclusively through paternally transmitted class III variable number tandem repeat alleles

scientific article published on 01 January 2000

Analysis of the contribution to type 2 diabetes susceptibility of sequence variation in the gene encoding stearoyl-CoA desaturase, a key regulator of lipid and carbohydrate metabolism

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Arachidonic acid stimulates glucose uptake in 3T3-L1 adipocytes by increasing GLUT1 and GLUT4 levels at the plasma membrane. Evidence for involvement of lipoxygenase metabolites and peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor gamma.

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Assessment of acute and chronic pharmacological effects on energy expenditure and macronutrient oxidation in humans: responses to ephedrine

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Association Between Low-Density Lipoprotein Cholesterol-Lowering Genetic Variants and Risk of Type 2 Diabetes: A Meta-analysis

scientific article published on October 2016

Association Between Physical Activity and Blood Pressure Is Modified by Variants in the G-Protein Coupled Receptor 10

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Association and haplotype analysis of the insulin-degrading enzyme (IDE) gene, a strong positional and biological candidate for type 2 diabetes susceptibility

scientific article published in May 2003

Association of Genetic Variants Related to Gluteofemoral vs Abdominal Fat Distribution With Type 2 Diabetes, Coronary Disease, and Cardiovascular Risk Factors

scientific article published on 01 December 2018

Association of Genetically Enhanced Lipoprotein Lipase-Mediated Lipolysis and Low-Density Lipoprotein Cholesterol-Lowering Alleles With Risk of Coronary Disease and Type 2 Diabetes

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Association of a homozygous nonsense caveolin-1 mutation with Berardinelli-Seip congenital lipodystrophy.

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Association of polymorphisms in GPR10, the gene encoding the prolactin-releasing peptide receptor with blood pressure, but not obesity, in a U.K. Caucasian population

scientific article (publication date: May 2003)

Associations of vomiting and antiemetic use in pregnancy with levels of circulating GDF15 early in the second trimester: A nested case-control study

scientific article published on 21 September 2018

C/EBP transcription factors regulate SREBP1c gene expression during adipogenesis

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CNS leptin action modulates immune response and survival in sepsis.

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Candidate gene association study in type 2 diabetes indicates a role for genes involved in beta-cell function as well as insulin action

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Characterisation of proguanylin expressing cells in the intestine - evidence for constitutive luminal secretion

scientific article published on 30 October 2019

Characterization of the human, mouse and rat PGC1 beta (peroxisome-proliferator-activated receptor-gamma co-activator 1 beta) gene in vitro and in vivo

scientific article

Class II phosphoinositide 3-kinase is activated by insulin but not by contraction in skeletal muscle.

scientific article published in December 2001

Clinical and molecular characterization of a novel PLIN1 frameshift mutation identified in patients with familial partial lipodystrophy.

scientific article

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

scientific article published on January 2007

Clinical spectrum of obesity and mutations in the melanocortin 4 receptor gene

scientific article (publication date: 20 March 2003)

Common variants near MC4R are associated with fat mass, weight and risk of obesity

scientific article

Complement abnormalities in acquired lipodystrophy revisited

scientific article published on 14 October 2008

Congenital leptin deficiency due to homozygosity for the Delta133G mutation: report of another case and evaluation of response to four years of leptin therapy

scientific article

Constitutive Activation of AKT2 in Humans Leads to Hypoglycemia Without Fatty Liver or Metabolic Dyslipidemia

scientific article published on 23 May 2017

Contributions of Function-Altering Variants in Genes Implicated in Pubertal Timing and Body Mass for Self-Limited Delayed Puberty.

scientific article published on 16 November 2017

Correction: A Prevalent Variant in PPP1R3A Impairs Glycogen Synthesis and Reduces Muscle Glycogen Content in Humans and Mice.

scientific article published on 23 December 2008

Correction: Candidate Gene Association Study in Type 2 Diabetes Indicates a Role for Genes Involved in β-Cell Function as Well as Insulin Action

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Decreased brown adipocyte recruitment and thermogenic capacity in mice with impaired peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor (P465L PPARgamma) function

scientific article published on 15 September 2006

Defective peroxisomal proliferators activated receptor gamma activity due to dominant-negative mutation synergizes with hypertension to accelerate cardiac fibrosis in mice

scientific article published on 24 April 2009

Deletion of codons 88-92 of the melanocortin-4 receptor gene: a novel deleterious mutation in an obese female.

scientific article published on December 2003

Depletion of stromal cells expressing fibroblast activation protein-α from skeletal muscle and bone marrow results in cachexia and anemia.

scientific article

Depot-related and thiazolidinedione-responsive expression of uncoupling protein 2 (UCP2) in human adipocytes

scientific article published on 01 May 2000

Development, factor structure and application of the Dog Obesity Risk and Appetite (DORA) questionnaire

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Differential effects of α-, β- and γ2-melanocyte-stimulating hormones on hypothalamic neuronal activation and feeding in the fasted rat ⬇️

scientific article published on January 1, 2001

Differential lipid partitioning between adipocytes and tissue macrophages modulates macrophage lipotoxicity and M2/M1 polarization in obese mice ⬇️

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Digenic inheritance of severe insulin resistance in a human pedigree

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Disruption of the homeodomain transcription factor orthopedia homeobox (Otp) is associated with obesity and anxiety

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Distinct modulatory effects of satiety and sibutramine on brain responses to food images in humans: a double dissociation across hypothalamus, amygdala, and ventral striatum

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Divergent effects of central melanocortin signalling on fat and sucrose preference in humans

scientific article

Does physical activity energy expenditure explain the between-individual variation in plasma leptin concentrations after adjusting for differences in body composition?

scientific article published on July 2003

Dominant and recessive inheritance of morbid obesity associated with melanocortin 4 receptor deficiency

scientific article published in July 2000

Dominant negative mutations in human PPARgamma associated with severe insulin resistance, diabetes mellitus and hypertension

scientific article

ETO/MTG8 is an inhibitor of C/EBPbeta activity and a regulator of early adipogenesis

scientific journal article

Early Diagnosis of Werner's Syndrome Using Exome-Wide Sequencing in a Single, Atypical Patient

scientific article published in 2011

Effects of recombinant leptin therapy in a child with congenital leptin deficiency.

scientific article

Energy expenditure and adaptive responses to an acute hypercaloric fat load in humans with lipodystrophy

scientific article published on 21 December 2004

Epidemiological evidence against a role for C-reactive protein causing leptin resistance.

scientific article published on 10 December 2012

Erratum: Sequence data and association statistics from 12,940 type 2 diabetes cases and controls

scientific article published on 23 January 2018

European paediatric non-alcoholic fatty liver disease registry (EU-PNAFLD): Design and rationale

scientific article published on 05 November 2018

Evaluating the role of LPIN1 variation in insulin resistance, body weight, and human lipodystrophy in U.K. Populations

scientific article published on 30 June 2008

Evaluation of a melanocortin-4 receptor (MC4R) agonist (Setmelanotide) in MC4R deficiency

scientific article published on 8 July 2017

Evidence for linkage of stature to chromosome 3p26 in a large U.K. Family data set ascertained for type 2 diabetes

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Examining the Candidacy of Ghrelin as a Gene Responsible for Variation in Adult Stature in a United Kingdom Population with Type 2 Diabetes

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Expression of the thermogenic nuclear hormone receptor coactivator PGC-1α is reduced in the adipose tissue of morbidly obese subjects

scientific article published on 01 January 2004

FTO expression is regulated by availability of essential amino acids.

scientific article published on 22 May 2012

FTO is necessary for the induction of leptin resistance by high-fat feeding

scientific article published on 07 February 2015

Familial partial lipodystrophy associated with compound heterozygosity for novel mutations in the LMNA gene

scientific article published on 01 April 2004

Fat mass and obesity-related (FTO) shuttles between the nucleus and cytoplasm.

scientific article published on 22 October 2014

Fat: an evolving issue ⬇️

scientific article published on September 1, 2012

Fatty acid metabolism in patients with PPARgamma mutations

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Formalising recall by genotype as an efficient approach to detailed phenotyping and causal inference.

scientific article published on 19 February 2018

Founder effect in the Horn of Africa for an insulin receptor mutation that may impair receptor recycling

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Functional characterization and structural modeling of obesity associated mutations in the melanocortin 4 receptor.

scientific article published on 18 September 2008

Functional characterization of a novel insulin receptor mutation contributing to Rabson-Mendenhall syndrome.

scientific article published on January 2007

Functional characterization of human NTRK2 mutations identified in patients with severe early-onset obesity.

scientific article published on 16 May 2006

Functional characterization of naturally occurring pathogenic mutations in the human leptin receptor

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Functional characterization of obesity-associated variants involving the α and β isoforms of human SH2B1

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GDF15 Concentrations in Maternal Serum Associated with Vomiting in Pregnancy: the Cambridge Baby Growth Study

scholarly article published 17 November 2017

GDF15 Provides an Endocrine Signal of Nutritional Stress in Mice and Humans

scientific article published on 10 January 2019

GDF15-From Biomarker to Allostatic Hormone

scientific article published on 27 November 2017

GWAS for BMI: a treasure trove of fundamental insights into the genetic basis of obesity

scientific article published on 06 July 2018

Genetic Predisposition to an Impaired Metabolism of the Branched-Chain Amino Acids and Risk of Type 2 Diabetes: A Mendelian Randomisation Analysis

scientific article

Genetic Syndromes of Severe Insulin Resistance

scientific article (publication date: August 2011)

Genetic architecture of human thinness compared to severe obesity

scientific article published on 24 January 2019

Genetic defects in human pericentrin are associated with severe insulin resistance and diabetes

scientific article

Genetic factors in human obesity.

scientific article published on March 2007

Genetic factors in type 2 diabetes: the end of the beginning?

scientific article published in January 2005

Genetic syndromes of severe insulin resistance

scientific article published on 22 February 2018

Genetic variance in the spinocerebellar ataxia type 2 (ATXN2) gene in children with severe early onset obesity

scientific article

Genetic variants and common diseases--better late than never

scientific article published on 01 July 2006

Genetic variants in human sterol regulatory element binding protein-1c in syndromes of severe insulin resistance and type 2 diabetes.

scientific article published on March 2004

Genetic variants of insulin receptor substrate-1 (IRS-1) in syndromes of severe insulin resistance. Functional analysis of Ala513Pro and Gly1158Glu IRS-1.

scientific article published in October 2002

Genetic variation in the corticotrophin-releasing factor receptors: identification of single-nucleotide polymorphisms and association studies with obesity in UK Caucasians

scientific article published on 01 March 2004

Genetic variation near IRS1 associates with reduced adiposity and an impaired metabolic profile

scientific article published on 26 June 2011

Genetics of obesity

scientific article published on 01 July 2006

Genome-wide SNP and CNV analysis identifies common and low-frequency variants associated with severe early-onset obesity

scientific journal article

Harveian Oration 2016: Some observations on the causes and consequences of obesity

scientific article published in December 2016

Heterogeneity of hypothalamic pro-opiomelanocortin-expressing neurons revealed by single-cell RNA sequencing

scientific article published on March 2017

Heterozygosity for aPOMC-Null Mutation and Increased Obesity Risk in Humans

scientific article published on 01 September 2006

Human SH2B1 mutations are associated with maladaptive behaviors and obesity

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Human Semaphorin 3 Variants Link Melanocortin Circuit Development and Energy Balance

scientific article published on 17 January 2019

Human biallelic MFN2 mutations induce mitochondrial dysfunction, upper body adipose hyperplasia, and suppression of leptin expression

scientific article

Human frame shift mutations affecting the carboxyl terminus of perilipin increase lipolysis by failing to sequester the adipose triglyceride lipase (ATGL) coactivator AB-hydrolase-containing 5 (ABHD5)

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Human genetics illuminates the paths to metabolic disease

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Human metabolic syndrome resulting from dominant-negative mutations in the nuclear receptor peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor-gamma

scientific article published in April 2003

Human obesity and insulin resistance: lessons from experiments of nature.

scientific article published on February 2007

Human obesity and type 2 diabetes are associated with alterations in SREBP1 isoform expression that are reproduced ex vivo by tumor necrosis factor-alpha

scientific article published in April 2002

Human obesity: a heritable neurobehavioral disorder that is highly sensitive to environmental conditions

scientific article published on November 2008

Hypercalcaemia associated with granulomatous lymphadenitis and elevated 1,25 dihydroxyvitamin D concentration in a dog

scientific article published on 01 April 2006

Hyperphagia and early-onset obesity due to a novel homozygous missense mutation in prohormone convertase 1/3.

scientific article

Hyperphagia, severe obesity, impaired cognitive function, and hyperactivity associated with functional loss of one copy of the brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF) gene

scientific article published on December 2006

Hypoglycemia and resistance to ketoacidosis in a subject without functional insulin receptors.

scientific article

Hypoglycemia due to an insulin binding antibody in a patient with an IgA-kappa myeloma

scientific article published on 03 April 2007

Hypogonadotropic hypogonadism due to a novel missense mutation in the first extracellular loop of the neurokinin B receptor.

scientific article

Hypoinsulinaemic, hypoketotic hypoglycaemia due to mosaic genetic activation of PI3-kinase.

scientific article

Hypoketotic hypofattyacidaemic hypoinsulinaemic hypoglycaemia in a child with hemihypertrophy? A new syndrome.

scientific article published on 2 February 2004

Hypomorphism in human NSMCE2 linked to primordial dwarfism and insulin resistance

scientific article

Hypothalamic loss of Snord116 recapitulates the hyperphagia of Prader-Willi syndrome.

scientific article published on 29 January 2018

Hypothalamic-specific manipulation of Fto, the ortholog of the human obesity gene FTO, affects food intake in rats.

scientific article

IRS2 variants and syndromes of severe insulin resistance

scientific article published on 18 April 2009

Identification of the global transcriptomic response of the hypothalamic arcuate nucleus to fasting and leptin.

scientific article

Impaired prohormone processing: a grand unified theory for features of Prader-Willi syndrome?

scientific article published on 12 December 2016

Induction of adipocyte complement-related protein of 30 kilodaltons by PPARgamma agonists: a potential mechanism of insulin sensitization

scientific article published on March 2002

Influence of leptin on arterial distensibility: a novel link between obesity and cardiovascular disease?

scientific article published in October 2002

Insights into obesity and insulin resistance from the study of extreme human phenotypes

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Insulin-like peptide 5 is an orexigenic gastrointestinal hormone

scientific journal article

Integrative genomic analysis implicates limited peripheral adipose storage capacity in the pathogenesis of human insulin resistance.

scientific article

International Union of Pharmacology. LXI. Peroxisome proliferator-activated receptors

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Investigating the involvement of the ATF6α pathway of the unfolded protein response in adipogenesis.

scientific article

Is leptin an important physiological regulator of CRP?

scientific article published on 01 January 2007

Isomer-dependent metabolic effects of conjugated linoleic acid: insights from molecular markers sterol regulatory element-binding protein-1c and LXRalpha

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KSR2 mutations are associated with obesity, insulin resistance, and impaired cellular fuel oxidation

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Kinetic analysis of FTO (fat mass and obesity-associated) reveals that it is unlikely to function as a sensor for 2-oxoglutarate

scientific article published in June 2012

Knockdown of diacylglycerol kinase delta inhibits adipocyte differentiation and alters lipid synthesis

scientific article published on 23 May 2013

LMNA, encoding lamin A/C, is mutated in partial lipodystrophy.

scientific article

Lamin A/C polymorphisms, type 2 diabetes, and the metabolic syndrome: case-control and quantitative trait studies

scientific article published on March 2007

Lamin expression in human adipose cells in relation to anatomical site and differentiation state

scientific article published on February 2002

Large, rare chromosomal deletions associated with severe early-onset obesity

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Large-scale studies of the association between variation at the TNF/LTA locus and susceptibility to type 2 diabetes.

scientific article

Leptin deficiency unmasks the deleterious effects of impaired peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor gamma function (P465L PPARgamma) in mice

scientific article published on October 2006

Leptin mediates the increase in blood pressure associated with obesity

scientific article

Leptin predicts a worsening of the features of the metabolic syndrome independently of obesity

scientific article published in August 2005

Leptin regulates peripheral lipid metabolism primarily through central effects on food intake

scientific article

Leptin regulates striatal regions and human eating behavior

scientific article published on 09 August 2007

Leptin therapy in lipodystrophy

scientific article published on 04 October 2009

Leptin: a pivotal regulator of human energy homeostasis

scientific article

Lipodystrophy: metabolic insights from a rare disorder ⬇️

scientific article published on September 24, 2010

Loss of Mrap2 is associated with Sim1 deficiency and increased circulating cholesterol.

scientific article published on 22 April 2016

Loss of NPC1 function in a patient with a co-inherited novel insulin receptor mutation does not grossly modify the severity of the associated insulin resistance.

scientific article published on 03 June 2010

Loss of agouti-related peptide does not significantly impact the phenotype of murine POMC deficiency

scientific article

Loss of function of the melanocortin 2 receptor accessory protein 2 is associated with mammalian obesity

scientific journal article

Loss-of-function mutation in the dioxygenase-encoding FTO gene causes severe growth retardation and multiple malformations

scientific article published on 25 June 2009

Low-frequency and rare exome chip variants associate with fasting glucose and type 2 diabetes susceptibility

scientific article

Mapping cis- and trans-regulatory effects across multiple tissues in twins

scientific article published on 02 September 2012

Mechanistic insights revealed by lipid profiling in monogenic insulin resistance syndromes

scientific article published on 28 June 2015

Medical training in the UK: sleepwalking to disaster

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Melanin-concentrating hormone receptor mutations and human obesity: functional analysis

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Melanocortin receptors weigh in.

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Metabolic Precision Medicines: Curing POMC Deficiency

scientific article published on 20 July 2016

Metabolic insights from extreme human insulin resistance phenotypes

scientific article published on April 2012

Mice lacking pro-opiomelanocortin are sensitive to high-fat feeding but respond normally to the acute anorectic effects of peptide-YY(3-36).

scholarly article

Microarray analysis of insulin and insulin-like growth factor-1 (IGF-1) receptor signaling reveals the selective up-regulation of the mitogen heparin-binding EGF-like growth factor by IGF-1.

scientific article

Minireview: human obesity-lessons from monogenic disorders

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Mitochondrial dysfunction in patients with primary congenital insulin resistance

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Mitochondrial oxidative phosphorylation is impaired in patients with congenital lipodystrophy

scientific article

Modernising Medical Careers, Medical Training Application Service, and the Postgraduate Medical Education and Training Board: time for the emperors to don their clothes

scientific article published in The Lancet

Modulation of blood pressure by central melanocortinergic pathways

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Molecular Genetic Analysis of Normosmic Hypogonadotropic Hypogonadism in a Turkish Population: Identification and Detailed Functional Characterization of a Novel Mutation in the Gonadotropin-Releasing Hormone Receptor Gene

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Monogenic human obesity syndromes.

scientific article published on January 2004

Monogenic obesity in humans

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Monogenic polycystic ovary syndrome due to a mutation in the lamin A/C gene is sensitive to thiazolidinediones but not to metformin.

scientific article published in September 2008

Mosaic overgrowth with fibroadipose hyperplasia is caused by somatic activating mutations in PIK3CA

scientific article

Muscle glycogen inharmoniously regulates glycogen synthase activity, glucose uptake, and proximal insulin signaling

scientific article published on 23 August 2005

Mutational analysis of the serotonin receptor 5HT2c in severe early-onset human obesity.

scientific article

Mutations disrupting the Kennedy phosphatidylcholine pathway in humans with congenital lipodystrophy and fatty liver disease

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Mutations in ligands and receptors of the leptin-melanocortin pathway that lead to obesity

scientific article published on 09 September 2008

Mutations in the amino-terminal region of proopiomelanocortin (POMC) in patients with early-onset obesity impair POMC sorting to the regulated secretory pathway

scientific article published on 12 August 2008

Mutations in the human melanocortin-4 receptor gene associated with severe familial obesity disrupts receptor function through multiple molecular mechanisms

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New advances in the genetics of early onset obesity

scientific article published on 01 October 2005

No Evidence for Linkage at Candidate Type 2 Diabetes Susceptibility Loci on Chromosomes 12 and 20 in United Kingdom Caucasians

scientific article published on 01 February 2000

Non-DNA binding, dominant-negative, human PPARgamma mutations cause lipodystrophic insulin resistance

scientific article published on October 2006

Novel leptin-regulated genes revealed by transcriptional profiling of the hypothalamic paraventricular nucleus

scientific article

Obesity and FTO: Changing Focus at a Complex Locus

scientific article

Obesity and diabetes: an avalanche of new information

scientific article published on 01 June 2000

Obesity associated genetic variation in FTO is associated with diminished satiety

scientific article

Obesity due to melanocortin 4 receptor (MC4R) deficiency is associated with increased linear growth and final height, fasting hyperinsulinemia, and incompletely suppressed growth hormone secretion

scientific article published on 3 November 2010

Obesity therapy: altering the energy intake-and-expenditure balance sheet

scientific article

Obesity-associated gene TMEM18 has a role in the central control of appetite and body weight regulation.

scientific article published on 15 August 2017

Obesity-associated melanocortin-4 receptor mutations are associated with changes in the brain response to food cues

scientific article

PCSK1 Mutations and Human Endocrinopathies: From Obesity to Gastrointestinal Disorders

scientific article published on 17 May 2016

PGC-1alpha genotype modifies the association of volitional energy expenditure with [OV0312]O2max.

scientific article published in December 2003

PPAR gamma and human metabolic disease

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PPARGC1A coding variation may initiate impaired NEFA clearance during glucose challenge.

scientific article published on 10 January 2007

Paradoxical elevation of high-molecular weight adiponectin in acquired extreme insulin resistance due to insulin receptor antibodies

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Partial leptin deficiency and human adiposity.

scientific article

Partial lipodystrophy and insulin resistant diabetes in a patient with a homozygous nonsense mutation in CIDEC

scientific article

Peptide YY3-36 and satiety: clarity or confusion?

scientific article

Perilipin deficiency and autosomal dominant partial lipodystrophy

scientific article published on February 2011

Peripheral administration of the N-terminal pro-opiomelanocortin fragment 1-28 to Pomc-/- mice reduces food intake and weight but does not affect adrenal growth or corticosterone production

scientific article published on August 2006

Peripheral mechanisms contributing to the glucocorticoid hypersensitivity in proopiomelanocortin null mice treated with corticosterone

scientific article

Pharmacological inhibition of glucosylceramide synthase enhances insulin sensitivity

scientific article

Phenotypic and genetic heterogeneity in congenital generalized lipodystrophy

scientific article published in October 2003

Plasma Adiponectin as a Marker of Insulin Receptor Dysfunction: Clinical utility in severe insulin resistance

scientific article published on 25 February 2008

Postreceptor insulin resistance contributes to human dyslipidemia and hepatic steatosis

scientific article published on 26 January 2009

Potentiation of glucose uptake in 3T3-L1 adipocytes by PPAR gamma agonists is maintained in cells expressing a PPAR gamma dominant-negative mutant: evidence for selectivity in the downstream responses to PPAR gamma activation.

scientific article

Prevalence and functionality of paucimorphic and privateMC4Rmutations in a large, unselected European British population, scanned by meltMADGE

article published in 2007

Prevalence of loss-of-function FTO mutations in lean and obese individuals

scientific article

Prevalence of melanocortin-4 receptor deficiency in Europeans and their age-dependent penetrance in multigenerational pedigrees.

scientific article published on 16 June 2008

Pro-opiomelanocortin modulates the thermogenic and physical activity responses to high-fat feeding and markedly influences dietary fat preference

scientific article

Proopiomelanocortin and energy balance: insights from human and murine genetics

scientific article published on June 2004

Proopiomelanocortin-deficient mice are hypersensitive to the adverse metabolic effects of glucocorticoids

scientific article published in August 2005

Prospective functional classification of all possible missense variants in PPARG.

scientific article published on 17 October 2016

Proteinuric nephropathy in acquired and congenital generalized lipodystrophy: baseline characteristics and course during recombinant leptin therapy

scientific article published in July 2004

Psychiatric co-morbidities in patients attending specialist obesity services in the UK.

scientific article

Quantitative mass spectrometry for human melanocortin peptides in vitro and in vivo suggests prominent roles for β-MSH and desacetyl α-MSH in energy homeostasis

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Rare Variant Analysis of Human and Rodent Obesity Genes in Individuals with Severe Childhood Obesity

scientific article published on 29 June 2017

Rare variants in single-minded 1 (SIM1) are associated with severe obesity

scientific article published on 17 June 2013

Regional differences in the response of human pre-adipocytes to PPARgamma and RXRalpha agonists

scientific journal article

Regulation of tumour necrosis factor-alpha release from human adipose tissue in vitro

scientific article published on 01 October 1999

Resistin: a new link between obesity and insulin resistance?

scientific article

Role for the obesity-related FTO gene in the cellular sensing of amino acids

scientific article published on 28 January 2013

Role of the POZ zinc finger transcription factor FBI-1 in human and murine adipogenesis.

scientific article

Rosiglitazone increases indexes of stearoyl-CoA desaturase activity in humans: link to insulin sensitization and the role of dominant-negative mutation in peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor-gamma

scientific article published in May 2005

Roux-en-Y Gastric Bypass Surgery in the Management of Familial Partial Lipodystrophy Type 1.

scientific article published on 26 July 2017

Seipin oligomers can interact directly with AGPAT2 and lipin 1, physically scaffolding critical regulators of adipogenesis

scientific article

Sequence data and association statistics from 12,940 type 2 diabetes cases and controls

scientific article published on 19 December 2017

Sequence variants in the melatonin-related receptor gene (GPR50) associate with circulating triglyceride and HDL levels

scientific article

Sequential regulation of diacylglycerol acyltransferase 2 expression by CAAT/enhancer-binding protein beta (C/EBPbeta) and C/EBPalpha during adipogenesis

scientific article

Serotonin 5-HT2C receptor agonist promotes hypophagia via downstream activation of melanocortin 4 receptors

scientific article published on 26 November 2007

Serotonin activates the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis via serotonin 2C receptor stimulation

scientific article

Serum ghrelin levels are inversely correlated with body mass index, age, and insulin concentrations in normal children and are markedly increased in Prader-Willi syndrome

scientific article published in January 2003

Set points, settling points and some alternative models: theoretical options to understand how genes and environments combine to regulate body adiposity

scientific article published on November 2011

Severe hypo-alpha-lipoproteinemia during treatment with rosiglitazone

scientific article published in November 2004

Severe hypoinsulinaemic hypoglycaemia in a premature infant associated with poor weight gain and reduced adipose tissue

scientific article

Severe insulin resistance due to anti-insulin antibodies: response to plasma exchange and immunosuppressive therapy.

scientific article published in January 2009

Severe obesity and diabetes insipidus in a patient with PCSK1 deficiency

scientific article published on 17 April 2013

Shedding pounds after going under the knife: Guts over glory—why diets fail

scientific article published in May 2012

Significant Linkage of BMI to Chromosome 10p in the U.K. Population and Evaluation of GAD2 as a Positional Candidate

scientific article published on 01 June 2006

Six new loci associated with body mass index highlight a neuronal influence on body weight regulation

scientific article

Small-intestinal dysfunction accompanies the complex endocrinopathy of human proprotein convertase 1 deficiency

scientific article

SnapShot: the hormonal control of food intake.

scientific article published in October 2008

Steroid receptor coactivator-1 modulates the function of Pomc neurons and energy homeostasis

scientific article published on 12 April 2019

Studies of the neuromedin U-2 receptor gene in human obesity: evidence for the existence of two ancestral forms of the receptor

scientific article published in October 2004

Studies of the peptide YY and neuropeptide Y2 receptor genes in relation to human obesity and obesity-related traits

scientific article

Successful treatment of Type B insulin resistance in a patient with otherwise quiescent systemic lupus erythematosus.

scientific article published in June 2005

TAC3 and TACR3 mutations in familial hypogonadotropic hypogonadism reveal a key role for Neurokinin B in the central control of reproduction

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TCF7L2 polymorphisms modulate proinsulin levels and beta-cell function in a British Europid population

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Tamoxifen-induced anorexia is associated with fatty acid synthase inhibition in the ventromedial nucleus of the hypothalamus and accumulation of malonyl-CoA.

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The Effect of the Gly16Arg Polymorphism of theβ 2-Adrenergic Receptor Gene on Plasma Free Fatty Acid Levels Is Modulated by Physical Activity ⬇️

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The GPR54 gene as a regulator of puberty

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The Gly482Ser genotype at the PPARGC1A gene and elevated blood pressure: a meta-analysis involving 13,949 individuals

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The Imprinted Gene Peg3 Is Not Essential for Tumor Necrosis Factor α Signaling

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The Wnt antagonist Dickkopf-1 and its receptors are coordinately regulated during early human adipogenesis.

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The central melanocortin system directly controls peripheral lipid metabolism

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The effects of neurokinin B upon gonadotrophin release in male rodents.

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The effects of proopiomelanocortin deficiency on murine adrenal development and responsiveness to adrenocorticotropin

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The genetic architecture of type 2 diabetes

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The hormonal control of food intake

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The human lipodystrophy gene BSCL2/seipin may be essential for normal adipocyte differentiation

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The human lipodystrophy protein seipin is an ER membrane adaptor for the adipogenic PA phosphatase lipin 1.

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The link between nutritional status and insulin sensitivity is dependent on the adipocyte-specific peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor-gamma2 isoform

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The metabolic syndrome- associated small G protein ARL15 plays a role in adipocyte differentiation and adiponectin secretion.

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The metabolic syndrome: peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor gamma and its therapeutic modulation

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The obesity-associated FTO gene encodes a 2-oxoglutarate-dependent nucleic acid demethylase

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The peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor-gamma regulates murine pyruvate carboxylase gene expression in vivo and in vitro

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The transcription factors Egr1 and Egr2 have opposing influences on adipocyte differentiation.

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Transcript and metabolite analysis of the effects of tamoxifen in rat liver reveals inhibition of fatty acid synthesis in the presence of hepatic steatosis

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Trappc9 deficiency causes parent-of-origin dependent microcephaly and obesity

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Treatment with recombinant human insulin-like growth factor (rhIGF)-I/rhIGF binding protein-3 complex improves metabolic control in subjects with severe insulin resistance

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Trim28 Haploinsufficiency Triggers Bi-stable Epigenetic Obesity.

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Triple H syndrome: a novel autoimmune endocrinopathy characterized by dysfunction of the hippocampus, hair follicle, and hypothalamic-pituitary adrenal axis

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Trophoblast organoids as a model for maternal-fetal interactions during human placentation

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Tumor necrosis factor-induced cytotoxicity is not related to rates of mitochondrial morphological abnormalities or autophagy-changes that can be mediated by TNFR-I or TNFR-II.

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Two novel missense mutations in g protein-coupled receptor 54 in a patient with hypogonadotropic hypogonadism.

scientific article published on 14 December 2004

Tyrosine agonists reverse the molecular defects associated with dominant-negative mutations in human peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor gamma.

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Uncoupling protein 2: Adiposity angel and diabetes devil?

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Uncoupling protein 3 genetic variants in human obesity: the c-55t promoter polymorphism is negatively correlated with body mass index in a UK Caucasian population

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Uncovering the biology of FTO

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Variation in the eNOS gene modifies the association between total energy expenditure and glucose intolerance

scientific article published in September 2005

WNT10B mutations in human obesity.

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