The Genetics of Obesity.

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Understanding the genetic causes of obesity permits anticipatory guidance and targeted treatments. Children with hyperphagia and severe early-onset obesity should receive genetic testing for rare monogenic and syndromic disorders caused by pathogenic variants involving a single gene or single chromosomal region. Gene panels covering the leptin pathway, the key regulator of energy balance, are becoming more widely...

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