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Effect of Setmelanotide Treatment in Children and Adolescents With Proopiomelanocortin (POMC) Deficiency, Leptin Receptor (LEPR) Deficiency, and Bardet-Biedl Syndrome (BBS)

Argente Jesús , Kühnen Peter , M. Haqq Andrea , Wabitsch Martin , K. Chung Wendy , van den Akker Erica , Á. Martos-Moreno Gabriel , Mohamed Iqbal Anoop , Forsythe Elizabeth , Dubern Béatrice , Malhotra Sonali , Yuan Goujun , Touchot Nicolas , Dollfus Hélène , Farooqi Sadaf , Clément Karine

Background: The melanocortin-4 receptor (MC4R) pathway is a key regulator of energy balance and satiety. Variants in genes upstream of MC4R encoding leptin receptor (LEPR), proopiomelanocortin (POMC), proprotein convertase subtilisin/kexin type 1(PCSK1) and those involved in Bardet-Biedl syndrome (BBS) can impair MC4R pathway signaling. Clinically, these variants are characterized by hyperphagia (Pathologic insatiable hunger) and early-onset, severe obesity. E...

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Effect of Setmelanotide Treatment in Children and Adolescents With Proopiomelanocortin (POMC) Deficiency, Leptin Receptor (LEPR) Deficiency, and Bardet-Biedl Syndrome (BBS)

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