A Founder Mutation in the POMC 5'-UTR Causes Proopiomelanocortin Deficiency Through Splicing-Mediated Decrease of mRNA.
Iuliia V ViakhirevaNatalia KalinchenkoEvgeny V VasilyevGalina V ChistousovaAlexandra Yu FilatovaAndrey A MarakhonovPetr M RubtsovMikhail Yurevich SkoblovAnatoly TiulpakovPublished in: The Journal of clinical endocrinology and metabolism (2022)
This report presents a new molecular mechanism of POMC deficiency and contributes to the information on phenotypic variability in patients with this disorder.