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Congenital leptin deficiency is associated with severe early-onset obesity in humans 1997 2026 2006 2016 2.1k
  1. Congenital leptin deficiency is associated with severe early-onset obesity in humans (1997)
    Elizabeth Montague, I. Sadaf Farooqi et al. Nature
  2. The GPR54 Gene as a Regulator of Puberty (2003)
    Stephanie B. Seminara, Sophie Messager et al. New England Journal of Medicine
  3. Effects of Recombinant Leptin Therapy in a Child with Congenital Leptin Deficiency (1999)
    I. Sadaf Farooqi, Susan A. Jebb et al. New England Journal of Medicine
  4. Clinical Spectrum of Obesity and Mutations in the Melanocortin 4 Receptor Gene (2003)
    I. Sadaf Farooqi, Julia M. Keogh et al. New England Journal of Medicine
  5. Dominant negative mutations in human PPARγ associated with severe insulin resistance, diabetes mellitus and hypertension (1999)
    Inês Barroso, Mark Gurnell et al. Nature
  6. Beneficial effects of leptin on obesity, T cell hyporesponsiveness, and neuroendocrine/metabolic dysfunction of human congenital leptin deficiency (2002)
    I. Sadaf Farooqi, Giuseppe Matarese et al. Journal of Clinical Investigation
  7. Beneficial effects of leptin on obesity, T cell hyporesponsiveness, and neuroendocrine/metabolic dysfunction of human congenital leptin deficiency (2002)
    I. Sadaf Farooqi, Giuseppe Matarese et al. Journal of Clinical Investigation
  8. International Union of Pharmacology. LXI. Peroxisome Proliferator-Activated Receptors (2006)
    Liliane Michalik, Johan Auwerx et al. Pharmacological Reviews
  9. Obesity and impaired prohormone processing associated with mutations in the human prohormone convertase 1 gene (1997)
    Robert S. Jackson, John W.M. Creemers et al. Nature Genetics
  10. TAC3 and TACR3 mutations in familial hypogonadotropic hypogonadism reveal a key role for Neurokinin B in the central control of reproduction (2008)
    A. Kemal Topaloğlu, Frank Reimann et al. Nature Genetics
  11. Resistin / Fizz3 Expression in Relation to Obesity and Peroxisome Proliferator–Activated Receptor-γ Action in Humans (2001)
    David B. Savage, Ciaran Sewter et al. Diabetes
  12. Dominant and recessive inheritance of morbid obesity associated with melanocortin 4 receptor deficiency (2000)
    I. Sadaf Farooqi, Giles S.H. Yeo et al. Journal of Clinical Investigation
  13. LMNA, encoding lamin A/C, is mutated in partial lipodystrophy (2000)
    Sue Shackleton, David J. Lloyd et al. Nature Genetics
  14. The perils of portliness: causes and consequences of visceral adiposity. (2000)
    Elizabeth Montague, Stephen O’Rahilly Diabetes
  15. Genetics of body-weight regulation (2000)
    Gregory S. Barsh, I. Sadaf Farooqi et al. Nature
  16. Trophoblast organoids as a model for maternal–fetal interactions during human placentation (2018)
    Margherita Y. Turco, Lucy Gardner et al. Nature
  17. Associations between body-mass index and COVID-19 severity in 6·9 million people in England: a prospective, community-based, cohort study (2021)
    Min Gao, Carmen Piernas et al. The Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology
  18. Loss-of-Function Mutation in the Dioxygenase-Encoding FTO Gene Causes Severe Growth Retardation and Multiple Malformations (2009)
    Sarah Boissel, Orit Reish et al. The American Journal of Human Genetics
  19. The energy balance model of obesity: beyond calories in, calories out (2022)
    Kevin D. Hall, I. Sadaf Farooqi et al. American Journal of Clinical Nutrition

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