Leptin: Genes, Concepts and Clinical Perspective

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Obesity is a complex disease which results from the interaction of multiple genes and the environment. The recently discovered genes for leptin (ob gene) and the leptin receptor appear to play a major regulatory role in body energy balance and adipose tissue deposition. Furthermore, defects in the ob gene and leptin receptor gene have been demonstrated to be the cause of obesity in several rodent models. These...

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