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Obesity: genetics

Arab countries

• International Journal of Obesity
  • Genetic polymorphisms associated with obesity in the Arab world: a systematic review [2021]

• Journal of Pediatric Endocrinology and Metabolism
  • The genetic elucidation of monogenic obesity in the Arab world: a systematic review [2022]

Australia

• Australian Family Physician
  • Genetics of obesity [2017]

East Asia

• Frontiers in Genetics
  • Genetics of Obesity in East Asians [2020]

Europe

• BMC Medical Genomics
  • FTO haplotyping underlines high obesity risk for European populations [2019]

• European Society of Endocrinology
  • Clinical management of patients with genetic obesity during COVID-19 pandemic: position paper of the ESE Growth & Genetic Obesity COVID-19 Study Group and Rare Endo-ERN main thematic group on Growth and Obesity [2021]

• Nutrients
  • Interaction Effect of the Mediterranean Diet and an Obesity Genetic Risk Score on Adiposity and Metabolic Syndrome in Adolescents: The HELENA Study [2020]

• Scientific Reports
  • Development of a Genetic Risk Score to predict the risk of overweight and obesity in European adolescents from the HELENA study [2021]
  • Common genetic variation in obesity, lipid transfer genes and risk of Metabolic Syndrome: Results from IDEFICS/I.Family study and meta-analysis [2020]

Europe, United States

• Journal of Clinical Research in Pediatric Endocrinology
  • Current Treatments for Patients with Genetic Obesity [2023]

High-income countries

• SAGE Open Medicine
  • The obesity epidemic – Nature via nurture: A narrative review of high-income countries [2020]

India

• Journal of Genetics
  • Genetics of obesity and its measures in India [2018]

International

• Current Issues in Molecular Biology
  • A Review of Syndromic Forms of Obesity: Genetic Etiology, Clinical Features, and Molecular Diagnosis [2025]

• Endocrinology, Diabetes & Metabolism
  • Genetic Variants in the Fat Mass and Obesity-Associated Gene and Risk of Obesity/Overweight in Children and Adolescents: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis [2024]

• Genes
  • Obesity and the Genome: Emerging Insights from Studies in 2024 and 2025 [2025]

• International Journal of Molecular Sciences
  • Systematic Review of IL-1, IL-4, IL-6, IL-10, IL-15, and IL-18 Gene Polymorphisms and Meta-Analysis of IL-6 Variant and Its Association with Overweight and Obesity Risk in Men [2024]

• Journal of Obesity
  • Genetic Landscape of Obesity in Children: Research Advances and Prospects [2025]

• Nature Reviews Genetics
  • The genetics of obesity: from discovery to biology [2022]

• Nutrients
  • The Genetic Basis of Childhood Obesity: A Systematic Review [2023]

• Obesity
  • Genetics of Obesity in Consanguineous Populations: Toward Precision Medicine and the Discovery of Novel Obesity Genes [2018]

• PLOS Genetics
  • Genome-wide association study provides novel insight into the genetic architecture of severe obesity [2025]

Malaysia

• Genes
  • Genetic Variants of Obesity in Malaysia: A Scoping Review [2024]

Netherlands

• Journal of Pediatrics
  • Genetic Obesity Disorders: Body Mass Index Trajectories and Age of Onset of Obesity Compared with Children with Obesity from the General Population [2023]

Norway

• Human Molecular Genetics
  • Separating the genetics of childhood and adult obesity: a validation study of genetic scores for body mass index in adolescence and adulthood in the HUNT Study [2020]

• PLoS Medicine
  • Genetic associations with temporal shifts in obesity and severe obesity during the obesity epidemic in Norway: A longitudinal population-based cohort (the HUNT Study) [2020]

Pakistan

• Scientific Reports
  • Predicting anthropometric and metabolic traits with a genetic risk score for obesity in a sample of Pakistanis [2021]

Portugal

• Genes
  • Identification of Genetic Variants in 65 Obesity Related Genes in a Cohort of Portuguese Obese Individuals [2021]

Qatar

• Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism
  • Understanding the Genetics of Early-Onset Obesity in a Cohort of Children From Qatar [2023]

• Obesity Facts
  • The Spectrum of Genetic Variants Associated with the Development of Monogenic Obesity in Qatar [2022]

Republic of Korea

• International Journal of Molecular Sciences
  • Gene-Nutrient Interactions in Obesity: COBLL1 Genetic Variants Interact with Dietary Fat Intake to Modulate the Incidence of Obesity [2023]

United Kingdom

• BMC Medicine
  • Independent and combined associations between fast-food outlet exposure and genetic risk for obesity: a population-based, cross-sectional study in the UK [2021]

• BMJ Nutrition, Prevention & Health
  • Genetic risk of obesity as a modifier of associations between neighbourhood environment and body mass index: an observational study of 335 046 UK Biobank participants [2020]

• Cell Metabolism
  • Association of genetic risk, lifestyle, and their interaction with obesity and obesity-related morbidities [2024]

• Genetics of Obesity Study
  • Professionals

• National Institute for Health and Care Excellence
  • Setmelanotide for treating obesity caused by LEPR or POMC deficiency [2022]

• Scientific Reports
  • Genetic propensity for obesity, socioeconomic position, and trajectories of body mass index in older adults [2021]
  • Sex-specific moderation by lifestyle and psychosocial factors on the genetic contributions to adiposity in 112,151 individuals from UK Biobank [2019]

United States

• Endocrine Society
  • Obesity Pathogenesis: An Endocrine Society Scientific Statement [2017]

• Journal of Obesity
  • Genetics of Obesity and Type 2 Diabetes in African Americans [2013]

• Journal of Pediatric Genetics
  • Evaluation and Management of Early Onset Genetic Obesity in Childhood [2021]

• National Academies Press
  • Examining a Developmental Approach to Childhood Obesity [2015]

• Obesity
  • NIH working group report—using genomic information to guide weight management: From universal to precision treatment [2015]

• Obesity Medicine Association
  • Social consequences and genetics for the child with overweight and obesity: An obesity medicine association (OMA) clinical practice statement 2022 [2022]

• PLoS ONE
  • Association of a genetic risk score with BMI along the life-cycle: Evidence from several US cohorts [2020]

• StatPearls
  • Genetic and Syndromic Causes of Obesity: Diagnosis and Management

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