ISSN 1662-4009 (online)

ey0020.9-7 | Genetic Obesity and Genetic Risk Score | ESPEYB20

9.7. Rare antagonistic leptin variants and severe, early-onset obesity

JB Funcke , B Moepps , J Roos , J von Schnurbein , K Verstraete , E Frohlich-Reiterer , K Kohlsdorf , A Nunziata , S Brandt , A Tsirigotaki , A Dansercoer , E Suppan , B Haris , KM Debatin , SN Savvides , IS Farooqi , K Hussain , P Gierschik , P Fischer-Posovszky , M Wabitsch

Brief summary: The authors provide the first description of antagonistic hormone mutations as the cause of congenital disease in humans. The paper describes detailed characterizations of two novel, antagonistic leptin mutations underlying a formerly unrecognized form of congenital leptin dysfunction and delineate the challenges these mutations pose to the diagnosis and therapy of the disease.After the initial description of biologically inactive leptin v...