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Monogenic obesity due to MC4R deficiency: lessons from a multigenerational case

Eleni Z. Giannopoulou, Stefanie Zorn, Melanie Schirmer, Stephanie Brandt-Heunemann et al. • Molecular and Cellular Pediatrics (2026)

Abstract Background Melanocortin 4 receptor (MC4R) deficiency is the most common monogenic cause of obesity, yet remains underdiagnosed. Patients with monogenic obesity often undergo a frustrating diagnostic and therapeutic odyssey of years...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1186/s40348-025-00214-z

Abnormal X : autosome ratio, but normal X chromosome inactivation in human triploid cultures

Norwood Thomas H, Luo Ping, Varadarajan Kartik R, Gartler Stanley M et al. • BMC Genetics (2006)

Abstract Background X chromosome inactivation (XCI) is that aspect of mammalian dosage compensation that brings about equivalence of X-linked gene expression between females and males by inactivating one of the two X chromosomes (Xi) in nor...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1186/1471-2156-7-41

Genetics of MDS

Seishi Ogawa • Blood (2019)

Our knowledge about the genetics of myelodysplastic syndromes (MDS) and related myeloid disorders has been dramatically improved during the past decade, in which revolutionized sequencing technologies have played a major role. Through inten...

OPENALEX Open Access DOI: https://doi.org/10.1182/blood-2018-10-844621 PMC: 6587668

Genetics of Obesity

Claude Bouchard, Louis Përusse • Annual Review of Nutrition (1993)

Genetics of Human Obesities: Introductory Notes (C. Bouchard). Etiology and Prevalence of Obesity (G.A. Bray). Nongenetic Determinants of Obesity and Body Fat Topography (J.O. Hill, M.J. Pagliassotti, and J.C. Peters). Overview of the Adopt...

OPENALEX DOI: https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev.nu.13.070193.002005

Advances in genetics

M. Demerec, Ernst W. Caspari, John Marion Thoday, John G. Scandalios et al. • Advances in genetics (1947)

Advances in Genetics provides the latest information on the rapidly evolving field of genetics, presenting new medical breakthroughs that are occurring as a result of advances in our knowledge of the topic. The book continually publishes im...

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The Genetics of Eating Disorders

Sara E. Trace, Jessica H. Baker, Eva Peñas‐Lledó, Cynthia Marie Bulik • Annual Review of Clinical Psychology (2013)

Over the past decade, considerable advances have been made in understanding genetic influences on eating pathology. Eating disorders aggregate in families, and twin studies reveal that additive genetic factors account for approximately 40% ...

OPENALEX DOI: https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-clinpsy-050212-185546

Conservation Genetics

C. Anna Toline, John C. Avise, J. L. Hamrick • Ecology (1997)

Contributors. Prologue. 1. Introduction: The Scope of Conservation Genetics Part I: Case Histories with a Focus on Particular Taxonomic Groups. 2. Population Structure, Molecular Systematics and Forensic Identification of Whales and Dolphin...

OPENALEX DOI: https://doi.org/10.1890/0012-9658(1997)078[1288:cg]2.0.co;2

Anthropological Theory

David Kaplan • Routledge eBooks (2017)

Anthropological theory has been much discussed in recent years, yet the crucial questions still remain--how can it be defined, how is it developed, how is it to be applied, and how can one confirm it? The editors of Anthropological Theory a...

OPENALEX DOI: https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315082271

The Anthropologies of Illness and Sickness

A Young • Annual Review of Anthropology (1982)

ion. [In this connection, see analogous arguments by Navarro (126) and Assennato & Navarro (7, pp. 224--30) on the social production of knowledge of occupational medicine, and Latour & Woolgar (102) on the social production of biomedical kn...

OPENALEX DOI: https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev.an.11.100182.001353

Anthropology and Voice

Amanda J. Weidman • Annual Review of Anthropology (2014)

Voice is both a set of sonic, material, and literary practices shaped by culturally and historically specific moments and a category invoked in discourse about personal agency, communication and representation, and political power. This rev...

OPENALEX DOI: https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-anthro-102313-030050

WITTGENSTEIN AND ANTHROPOLOGY

Veena Das • Annual Review of Anthropology (1998)

▪ Abstract This essay explores the theme of Wittgenstein as a philosopher of culture. The primary text on which the essay is based is Philosophical Investigations; it treats Stanley Cavell's work as a major guide for the understanding and r...

OPENALEX DOI: https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev.anthro.27.1.171

The Anthropology of Online Communities

Samuel M. Wilson, Leighton C. Peterson • Annual Review of Anthropology (2002)

▪ Abstract Information and communication technologies based on the Internet have enabled the emergence of new sorts of communities and communicative practices—phenomena worthy of the attention of anthropological researchers. Despite early a...

OPENALEX DOI: https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev.anthro.31.040402.085436

For An Anthropology Of Ethics And Freedom

James C. Laidlaw • Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute (2002)

There cannot be a developed and sustained anthropology of ethics without there being also an ethnographic and theoretical interest – hitherto largely absent from anthropology – in freedom. A possible way of studying ethics and freedom compa...

OPENALEX DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9655.00110