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Stephen O'Rahilly

Researcher at University of Cambridge

Publications -  537
Citations -  81904

Stephen O'Rahilly is an academic researcher from University of Cambridge. The author has contributed to research in topics: Insulin resistance & Insulin. The author has an hindex of 138, co-authored 520 publications receiving 75686 citations. Previous affiliations of Stephen O'Rahilly include Dana Corporation & University of Oxford.

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Genetics of body-weight regulation

TL;DR: The role of genetics in obesity is twofold: Studying rare mutations in humans and model organisms provides fundamental insight into a complex physiological process, and complements population-based studies that seek to reveal primary causes.
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Mapping cis - and trans -regulatory effects across multiple tissues in twins

TL;DR: It is shown that at least 40% of the total heritable cis effect on expression cannot be accounted for by common cis variants, a finding that reveals the contribution of low-frequency and rare regulatory variants with respect to both transcriptional regulation and complex trait susceptibility.
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Resistin / Fizz3 Expression in Relation to Obesity and Peroxisome Proliferator - Activated Receptor-γ Action in Humans

TL;DR: It is concluded that the recently described relationships of murine resistin/Fizz3 expression with obesity, insulin resistance, and PPAR-gamma action may not readily translate to humans.
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Dominant and recessive inheritance of morbid obesity associated with melanocortin 4 receptor deficiency

TL;DR: The nucleotide sequence of the entire coding region of the MC4R gene is determined in 243 subjects with severe, early-onset obesity, resulting in a syndrome of hyperphagic obesity in humans that can present with either dominant or recessive patterns of inheritance.