Mutations in melanocortin 4 receptor gene linked to binge-eating behavior.

Obesity & Diabetes Week | April 28, 2003 | Copyright

2003 APR 28 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- by Maria G. Essig, MS, ELS, senior medical writer - An association between a mutation in the melanocortin 4 receptor (MC4R) gene and binge-eating behavior has been established, according to a report in the New England Journal of Medicine.

"Obesity, a multifactorial disease caused by the interaction of genetic factors with the environment, is largely polygenic," said Ruth Branson and colleagues at the Klinik Hirslanden in Switzerland, Bioscientia and the Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics in Germany, and the State ...

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