[This study indicates that leptin may act as a growth-promoting signal during fetal development, and suggests a possible role for the LEPR in explaining the inverse relationship between birth weight and the development of metabolic diseases in adulthood.]. 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