MRC Epidemiology Unit - Publications Database

Exome Sequencing Identifies Genes and Gene Sets Contributing to Severe Childhood Obesity, Linking PHIP Variants to Repressed POMC Transcription.

Marenne G, Hendricks AE, Perdikari A, Bounds R, Payne F, Keogh JM, Lelliott CJ, Henning E, Pathan S, Ashford S, Bochukova EG, Mistry V, Daly A, Hayward C, INTERVAL, UK10K Consortium, Wareham NJ, O'Rahilly S, Langenberg C, Wheeler E, Zeggini E, Farooqi IS, and Barroso I

Cell metabolism. Dec 2019

(DOI : 10.1016/j.cmet.2020.05.007)

Rare Variant Analysis of Human and Rodent Obesity Genes in Individuals with Severe Childhood Obesity.

Hendricks AE, Bochukova EG, Marenne G, Keogh JM, Atanassova N, Bounds R, Wheeler E, Mistry V, Henning E, Körner A, Muddyman D, McCarthy S, Hinney A, Hebebrand J, Scott RA, Langenberg C, Wareham NJ, Surendran P, Howson JM, Butterworth AS, Danesh J, Nordestgaard BG, Nielsen SF, Afzal S, Papadia S, Ashford S, Garg S, Millhauser GL, Palomino RI, Kwasniewska A, Tachmazidou I, O'Rahilly S, Zeggini E, Barroso I, Farooqi IS, Understanding Society Scientific Group, EPIC-CVD Consortium, and UK10K Consortium

Scientific reports. Nov 2016

(DOI : 10.1038/s41598-017-03054-8)

Genome-wide SNP and CNV analysis identifies common and low-frequency variants associated with severe early-onset obesity.

Wheeler E, Huang N, Bochukova EG, Keogh JM, Lindsay S, Garg S, Henning E, Blackburn H, Loos RJ, Wareham NJ, O'Rahilly S, Hurles ME, Barroso I, and Farooqi IS

Nature genetics. Nov 2012

(DOI : 10.1038/ng.2607)

Rare variants in single-minded 1 (SIM1) are associated with severe obesity.

Ramachandrappa S, Raimondo A, Cali AM, Keogh JM, Henning E, Saeed S, Thompson A, Garg S, Bochukova EG, Brage S, Trowse V, Wheeler E, Sullivan AE, Dattani M, Clayton PE, Datta V, Datta V, Bruning JB, Wareham NJ, O'Rahilly S, Peet DJ, Barroso I, Whitelaw ML, and Farooqi IS

The Journal of clinical investigation. Nov 2012

(DOI : 10.1172/JCI68016)

Modulation of blood pressure by central melanocortinergic pathways.

Greenfield JR, Miller JW, Keogh JM, Henning E, Satterwhite JH, Cameron GS, Astruc B, Mayer JP, Brage S, See TC, Lomas DJ, O'Rahilly S, and Farooqi IS

The New England journal of medicine. Dec 2008

(DOI : 10.1056/NEJMoa0803085)

Studies of the SIM1 gene in relation to human obesity and obesity-related traits.

Hung CC, Luan J, Sims M, Keogh JM, Hall C, Wareham NJ, O'Rahilly S, and Farooqi IS

International Journal of Obesity. Aug 2006

(DOI : 10.1038/sj.ijo.0803443)

A POMC variant implicates beta-melanocyte-stimulating hormone in the control of human energy balance.

Lee YS, Challis BG, Thompson DA, Yeo GS, Keogh JM, Madonna ME, Wraight V, Sims M, Vatin V, Meyre D, Shield J, Burren C, Ibrahim Z, Cheetham T, Swift P, Blackwood A, Hung CC, Wareham NJ, Froguel P, Millhauser GL, O'Rahilly S, and Farooqi IS

Cell metabolism. Oct 2005

(DOI : 10.1016/j.cmet.2006.01.006)