%0 Journal Article
%T Study of obesity associated proopiomelanocortin gene polymorphism: Relation to metabolic profile and eating habits in a sample of obese Egyptian children and adolescents
%A Azza M. Youssef
%A Farida El-Baz Mohamed
%A Nermine H. Amr
%A Rana A. Mahmoud
%A Rasha T. Hamza
%A Tarek M. Kamal
%J -
%D 2017
%X Background: Melanocortinergic system represents a known system involved in the central regulation of body weight with the central proopiomelanocortin (POMC) neurons forming a potent anorexigenic network. Polymorphisms in the POMC gene locus are associated with obesity phenotypes.
%K To assess the contribution of the POMC gene 9-bp insertional polymorphism in the susceptibility to obesity and its relation to body mass index (BMI) and adiposity-related co-morbidities in obese children and adolescents
%K as well as binge eating behavior.
%U https://www.ajol.info/index.php/ejhg/article/view/152199