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Mouse model implicates GNB3 duplication in a childhood obesity syndrome.

ABSTRACT: Obesity is a highly heritable condition and a risk factor for other diseases, including type 2 diabetes, cardiovascular disease, hypertension, and cancer. Recently, genomic copy number variation (CNV) has been implicated in cases of early onset obesity that may be comorbid with intellectual disability. Here, we describe a recurrent CNV that causes a syndrome associated with intellectual disability, seizures, macrocephaly, and obesity. This unbalanced chromosome translocation leads to duplication of over 100 genes on chromosome 12, including the obesity candidate gene G protein ?3 (GNB3). We generated a transgenic mouse model that carries an extra copy of GNB3, weighs significantly more than its wild-type littermates, and has excess intraabdominal fat accumulation. GNB3 is highly expressed in the brain, consistent with G-protein signaling involved in satiety and/or metabolism. These functional data connect GNB3 duplication and overexpression to elevated body mass index and provide evidence for a genetic syndrome caused by a recurrent CNV.

SUBMITTER: Goldlust IS

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3773733 | biostudies-literature | 2013 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Mouse model implicates GNB3 duplication in a childhood obesity syndrome.

Goldlust Ian S IS Hermetz Karen E KE Catalano Lisa M LM Barfield Richard T RT Cozad Rebecca R Wynn Grace G Ozdemir Alev Cagla AC Conneely Karen N KN Mulle Jennifer G JG Dharamrup Shikha S Hegde Madhuri R MR Kim Katherine H KH Angle Brad B Colley Alison A Webb Amy E AE Thorland Erik C EC Ellison Jay W JW Rosenfeld Jill A JA Ballif Blake C BC Shaffer Lisa G LG Demmer Laurie A LA Rudd M Katharine MK

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 20130826 37

Obesity is a highly heritable condition and a risk factor for other diseases, including type 2 diabetes, cardiovascular disease, hypertension, and cancer. Recently, genomic copy number variation (CNV) has been implicated in cases of early onset obesity that may be comorbid with intellectual disability. Here, we describe a recurrent CNV that causes a syndrome associated with intellectual disability, seizures, macrocephaly, and obesity. This unbalanced chromosome translocation leads to duplication ...[more]

PMID: 23980137

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Mouse model implicates GNB3 duplication in a childhood obesity syndrome.

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Mouse model implicates GNB3 duplication in a childhood obesity syndrome.

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