hrp0082pl6 | Genetics of Obesity | ESPE2014
Farooqi Sadaf
With the rising prevalence of childhood obesity, there has been an increase in the number of children presenting with severe obesity. Whilst only a relatively small proportion of severely obese children will have the classical features associated with the well-established genetic obesity syndromes such as Prader-Willi syndrome, there is increasing recognition that highly penetrant genetic disorders can frequently present as severe obesity alone without developmental delay, dys...