Dietary regimens modify early onset of obesity in mice haploinsufficient for Rai1.

Smith-Magenis syndrome is a complex genomic disorder in which a majority of individuals are obese by adolescence. While an interstitial deletion of chromosome 17p11.2 is the leading cause, mutation or deletion of the RAI1 gene alone results in most features of the disorder. Previous studies have sho...

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Main Authors: Joseph T Alaimo, Natalie C Hahn, Sureni V Mullegama, Sarah H Elsea
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2014-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4134272?pdf=render