Mostafa Salama, Filippo Pinto e Vairo, Roland Hentz, Alaa Al Nofal, Sara Hassan, Samar H Ibrahim, Aida Lteif, Ana Creo, Siobhan Pittock, Seema Kumar
Journal of the Endocrine Society, Volume 8, Issue 9, September 2024, bvae137
https://doi.org/10.1210/jendso/bvae137
Variants in melanocortin 4 receptor (MC4R) pathway-related genes have been associated with obesity. The association of these variants with cardiometabolic parameters are not fully known.
We compared the severity of obesity and cardiometabolic risk markers in children with MC4R pathway-related clinically reported genetic variants relative to children without these variants.
A retrospective chart review was performed in children with obesity who underwent multigene panel testing for monogenic obesity.
Data on a total of 104 children were examined, with 93 (89%) identified as White. Thirty-nine (37.5%) patients had clinically reported variants in the MC4R pathway, and the remaining 65 patients did not have reported MC4R pathway-related variants. Among the MC4R-related variants, PCSK1 risk alleles were most common, reported in 15 children (14%). The maximum body mass index percent of the 95th percentile was not different between groups (P = .116). Low-density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL-C) was not different between groups (P = .132). However, subgroup analysis demonstrated higher LDL cholesterol in children with the PCSK1 c.661A>G risk allele relative to those with MC4R-related variant of uncertain significance (P = .047), negative genetic testing (P = .012), and those with non-MC4R related variants (P = .048). The blood pressure, fasting glucose, hemoglobin A1C, total cholesterol, alanine transaminase, and high-density lipoprotein cholesterol were not different between groups.
Variants in the MC4R pathway-related genes were not associated with severity of obesity and cardiometabolic risk markers except for the c.661A>G PCSK1 risk allele, which was associated with higher LDL-C levels.
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