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Congenital Leptin Deficiency
A syndrome characterized by severe early-onset obesity, hyperphagia, hypogonadotropic hypogonadism, and neuroendocrine and metabolic dysfunction that is caused by homozygous or compound heterozygous mutation in LEP on ch
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Overview
A syndrome characterized by severe early-onset obesity, hyperphagia, hypogonadotropic hypogonadism, and neuroendocrine and metabolic dysfunction that is caused by homozygous or compound heterozygous mutation in LEP on ch
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