Annotation Detail

Information
Associated Genes
MC4R
Associated Variants
rs17782313
rs17782313
Associated Disease
obesity
Source Database
DisGeNET
Description
Under an additive model, the rs17782313-C MC4R allele showed a trend towards higher percentages of snacking in both French obese children (P=0.01) and Swiss obese adults (P=0.04) as well as in adolescents from the Finnish general population (P=0.04).
Pubmed
19153581
Original source reporting the Gene Disease association
BeFree
DisGENET score for the Gene Disease association
0.790574886740879
Year of publication
2009
Drugs