[Children with rare homozygous mutations in the leptin gene and complete leptin deficiency develop extreme hyperphagia and obesity soon after birth but respond with normal eating and a selective loss of excess body fat upon being given small amounts of leptin.]. Sentence from MEDLINE/PubMed, a database of the U.S. National Library of Medicine.
Gene-disease associations inferred from text-mining the literature.
DisGeNET evidence - LITERATURE