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ey0018.11-3 | New hope: Increased diagnostic yield for disease causing MC4R variants and pharmacological treatment options | ESPEYB18

11.3. Human MC4R variants affect endocytosis, trafficking and dimerization revealing multiple cellular mechanisms involved in weight regulation

B Brouwers , EM de Oliveira , M Marti-Solano , FBF Monteiro , SA Laurin , JM Keogh , E Henning , R Bounds , CA Daly , S Houston , V Ayinampudi , N Wasiluk , D Clarke , B Plouffe , M Bouvier , MM Babu , IS Farooqi , J Mokrosiński

J Cell Rep. 2021 Mar 23;34(12):108862. 10.1016/j.celrep.2021.108862. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33761344/This study demonstrates that MC4R variants found in humans affect receptor endocytosis, trafficking and dimerization and thus reveal multiple cellular mechanisms involved in weight regulation. The findings contributes to our und...

ey0018.11-4 | New hope: Increased diagnostic yield for disease causing MC4R variants and pharmacological treatment options | ESPEYB18

11.4. Loss-of-function mutations in the melanocortin 4 receptor in a UK birth cohort

KH Wade , BYH Lam , A Melvin , W Pan , LJ Corbin , DA Hughes , K Rainbow , JH Chen , K Duckett , X Liu , J Mokrosiński , A Morseburg , S Neaves , A Williamson , C Zhang , IS Farooqi , GSH Yeo , NJ Timpson , S O'Rahilly

Nat Med, 2021 Jun;27(6):1088–1096. 10.1038/s41591-021-01349-y. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34045736/This paper reports the high prevalence of MC4R loss-of-function (LoF) variants in a normal population and their large impact on longitudinally assessed anthropometric traits from birth to young adult life.Th...