[MC4R variants were detected in three patients: the known I169S variant was found in heterozygote state in two patients and a novel heterozygous Y302F mutation was detected in one 12-year-old girl (BMI = 34 kg/m(2), BMI z-score 2.7) who has been overweight since the second year of life and suffered from hyperinsulinemia (at the age of 12: fasting insulin 45 mU/ml, after oral glucose load max.]. Sentence from MEDLINE/PubMed, a database of the U.S. National Library of Medicine.
Gene-disease associations inferred from text-mining the literature.
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