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SUBMITTER: Altawil AS
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5153319 | biostudies-literature | 2016
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Altawil Ashwaq Shukri AS Mawlawi Horia Ahmad HA Alghamdi Khalid Ateeq KA Almijmaj Faten Fohaid FF
Clinical medicine insights. Pediatrics 20161211
<h4>Background</h4>Monogenic obesity is a rare type of obesity caused by a mutation in a single gene. Patients with monogenic obesity may develop early onset of obesity and severe metabolic abnormalities.<h4>Case presentation</h4>A two-and-half-year-old girl was presented to our clinic because of excessive weight gain and hyperphagia. She was born at full term, by normal vaginal delivery with birth weight of 2.82 kg and no complications during pregnancy. The patient was the second child of two h ...[more]