opiomelanocortin (POMC) Gene and its Association with Obesity in the Kampar

Obesity is caused by the deposition of fat in the body due to imbalanced food intake, where most of the calories are stored as lipid in adipose tissue. Recent studies have suggested that obesity is a neuroendocrine disease where a combination of genetic and environmental factors predispose a combined net effect of polygenic traits in body composition[1]. The variations in genes have been reported to account for 25 % to 70 % of obesity[2]. As concluded fro