Annotation Detail

Information
Associated Genes
INS
Associated Variants
INS MUTATION
INS MUTATION
Associated Disease
Overweight
Source Database
DisGeNET
Description
MC4R variants were detected in three patients: the known I169S variant was found in heterozygote state in two patients and a novel heterozygous Y302F mutation was detected in one 12-year-old girl (BMI = 34 kg/m(2), BMI z-score 2.7) who has been overweight since the second year of life and suffered from hyperinsulinemia (at the age of 12: fasting insulin 45 mU/ml, after oral glucose load max.
Pubmed
19214805
Original source reporting the Gene Disease association
BeFree
DisGENET score for the Gene Disease association
0.011672000499453
Year of publication
2009
Drugs