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Genetic predisposition to obesity in bulimia nervosa: a mutation screen of the melanocortin-4 receptor gene.

Molecular psychiatry - 1 Jan 2002

Hebebrand J, Fichter M, Gerber G, Görg T, Hermann H, Geller F, Schäfer H, Remschmidt H, Hinney A

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Obesity has been identified as a risk factor for the development of bulimia nervosa (BN). Accordingly, we hypothesize that genotypes predisposing to obesity can be detected in patients with this eating disorder. In order to investigate this hypothesis we screened the melanocortin-4 receptor gene (MC4R) for mutations using single strand conformation analysis in 81 female inpatients treated for BN. A single patient...

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PMID: 12140789
DOI: 10.1038/sj.mp.4001053

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