Laboratory for Molecular Diagnostics
Center for Nephrology and Metabolic Disorders
Mutations in the POMC gene can lead to a deficiency accompanied by adrenal insufficiency, obesity, and redhairedness.
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Krude H et al. (1998) Severe early-onset obesity, adrenal insufficiency and red hair pigmentation caused by POMC mutations in humans. 
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Yaswen L et al. (1999) Obesity in the mouse model of pro-opiomelanocortin deficiency responds to peripheral melanocortin.
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Krude H et al. (2003) Obesity due to proopiomelanocortin deficiency: three new cases and treatment trials with thyroid hormone and ACTH4-10.
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OMIM.ORG article Omim 609734
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