Disease Score gda Association Type Type Original DB Sentence supporting the association PMID PMID Year
CUI: C0028754
Disease: Obesity
Obesity
1.000 CausalMutation disease CLINVAR Prevalence of melanocortin-4 receptor deficiency in Europeans and their age-dependent penetrance in multigenerational pedigrees. 18559663 2008
CUI: C0028754
Disease: Obesity
Obesity
1.000 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE Six other SNPs, rs2815752 (NEGR1), rs10938397 (GNPDA2), rs10838738 (MTCH2), rs7498665 (SH2B1), rs17782313 (MC4R) and rs11084753 (KCTD15), were not associated with obesity (P>0.05). 22083549 2012
CUI: C0028754
Disease: Obesity
Obesity
1.000 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE Melanocortin-4 receptor polymorphism rs17782313: association with obesity and eating in the absence of hunger in Chilean children. 24139164 2014
CUI: C0028754
Disease: Obesity
Obesity
1.000 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE Most of these obesity disorders exhibit a distinct phenotype with varying degrees of hypothalamic and pituitary dysfunction and a recessive inheritance, whereas MC4-R mutation has a nonsyndromic phenotype with dominant inheritance. 10508193 1999
CUI: C0028754
Disease: Obesity
Obesity
1.000 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE Metabolic and hormonal consequencies of the "obesity risk" MC4R variant (rs12970134) in Czech women. 26680479 2015
CUI: C0028754
Disease: Obesity
Obesity
1.000 Biomarker disease GENOMICS_ENGLAND
CUI: C0028754
Disease: Obesity
Obesity
1.000 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE MC4R mutations are not a common cause of obesity in Norway and screening of obese patients does not appear to be warranted. 19301229 2009
CUI: C0028754
Disease: Obesity
Obesity
1.000 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE Recently, Pomc knockout mice were generated and shown to develop hyperphagia and obesity with a time-course and severity comparable to MC4-R knockout mice, whereas daily administration of a stable alpha-melanocyte stimulating hormone analogue reversed this effect. 10885325 2000
CUI: C0028754
Disease: Obesity
Obesity
1.000 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE As the MC4R locus explains only 0.28% of the BMI and 0.14% of the WC phenotypic variance in the Scottish population, most of the genetic contribution to obesity remains to be identified. 19050674 2009
CUI: C0028754
Disease: Obesity
Obesity
1.000 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE In conclusion, this study confirmed and extended the previous findings, suggesting the MC4R V103I polymorphism is negatively associated with human obesity. 19696756 2010
CUI: C0028754
Disease: Obesity
Obesity
1.000 GeneticVariation disease UNIPROT In conclusion, a pathogenic MC4R mutation was found among subjects with severe early-onset obesity but not among morbidly obese adults. 14764818 2004
CUI: C0028754
Disease: Obesity
Obesity
1.000 Biomarker disease CTD_human UBE41 had much less profound effects on MC4R I316S, another obesity-linked MC4R variant trapped in the ER. 23251400 2012
CUI: C0028754
Disease: Obesity
Obesity
1.000 Biomarker disease CTD_human Point mutations in the melanocortin-4 receptor cause variable obesity in mice. 17143585 2006
CUI: C0028754
Disease: Obesity
Obesity
1.000 CausalMutation disease CLINVAR Melanocortin 4 receptor mutations in a large cohort of severely obese adults: prevalence, functional classification, genotype-phenotype relationship, and lack of association with binge eating. 16507637 2006
CUI: C0028754
Disease: Obesity
Obesity
1.000 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE Heterozygous mutations in melanocortin-4 receptor (MC4R) are the most frequent genetic cause of obesity. 20957447 2011
CUI: C0028754
Disease: Obesity
Obesity
1.000 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE In our study, we addressed the hypothesis that a G-->A substitution at codon 103 (Val-103Ile) of the MC4R gene influences abdominal obesity, insulin, glucose, and lipid metabolism as well as circulating hormones, including salivary cortisol. 11692184 2001
CUI: C0028754
Disease: Obesity
Obesity
1.000 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE These pharmacological data provide a basis to estimate the quantitative effect of MC4R mutations for the development of obesity. 12690102 2003
CUI: C0028754
Disease: Obesity
Obesity
1.000 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE We conclude that rare heterozygous MC4R mutations contribute to the onset of obesity only in a few cases in the Slovak population. 26244670 2016
CUI: C0028754
Disease: Obesity
Obesity
1.000 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE The fat mass and obesity (FTO) and melanocortin-4 receptor (MC4R) genes have been consistently associated with the risk for obesity, but few studies have examined the association of the obesity risk alleles with gestational outcomes. 27377581 2017
CUI: C0028754
Disease: Obesity
Obesity
1.000 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE We aimed to determine the prevalence of melanocortin-4 receptor (MC4R) variants in a large German cohort of children with obesity in a pediatric outpatient clinic and to ascertain whether there is a specific phenotype associated with loss-of-function variants as previously reported. 27654141 2017
CUI: C0028754
Disease: Obesity
Obesity
1.000 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE Female mice heterozygous for Mc4r fed an obesogenic or a control diet for 5 weeks were mated with heterozygous males, with the same diet continued throughout pregnancy and lactation, generating four offspring groups: control wild type (C_wt), control knockout (C_KO), obese wild type (Ob_wt), and obese knockout (Ob_KO). 28930194 2017
CUI: C0028754
Disease: Obesity
Obesity
1.000 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE Downstream variants of the melanocortin-4 receptor (MC4R) gene have been associated with obesity in various populations. 22310352 2013
CUI: C0028754
Disease: Obesity
Obesity
1.000 Biomarker disease BEFREE The effect of hyperphagia and obesity by MC4R KO on pulsatile luteinizing hormone (LH) secretion and ovulation remains unknown. 28003536 2017
CUI: C0028754
Disease: Obesity
Obesity
1.000 Biomarker disease BEFREE Obesity is a heritable disorder, and some of the many obesity susceptible genes are fat mass and obesity (FTO), leptin, and Melanocortin-4 receptor (MC4R). 28924523 2017
CUI: C0028754
Disease: Obesity
Obesity
1.000 Biomarker disease RGD Expression of new loci associated with obesity in diet-induced obese rats: from genetics to physiology. 21779089 2012