inherited obesity

Findings

No curated finding names inherited obesity yet. Everything below is reference data from Mondo, HPO and GenCC, not evidence about what affects it.

What the disease is reported to present with, and how often among people who have it — never how often a feature means the disease. HPO, annotations 2026-09-02.

Germline variants in the gene encoding each protein, as classified by GenCC submitters, each in their own words. Limited, disputed and refuted submissions are listed too.

Where it sits

A kind of

• endocrine system disorder
• hereditary disease
• obesity disorder

Narrower terms (7)

• obesity due to CEP19 deficiency
• obesity due to congenital leptin deficiency
• obesity due to leptin receptor gene deficiency
• obesity due to melanocortin 4 receptor deficiency
• obesity due to pro-opiomelanocortin deficiency
• obesity due to prohormone convertase I deficiency
• obesity due to SIM1 deficiency

Resolves to: inherited obesity

Also called

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