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Styliani A Geronikolou1,2, Athanasia Pavlopoulou3, Dennis Cokkinos4
1Clinical, Translational, Experimental Surgery Research Center, Biomedical Research Foundation of Academy of Athens, 4 Soranou Efessiou Str, 11527, Athens, Greece. sgeronik@bioacademy.gr.
Abstract:
Obesity is a chronic disease of increasing prevalence reaching epidemic proportions. Genetic defects as well as epigenetic effects contribute to the obesity phenotype. Investigating gene (e.g. MC4R defects)-environment (behavior, infectious agents, stress) interactions is a relative new field of great research interest. In this study, we have made an effort to create an interactome (henceforth referred to as "obesidome"), where extrinsic stressors response, intrinsic predisposition, immunity response to inflammation and autonomous nervous system implications are integrated. These pathways are presented in one interactome network for the first time. In our study, obesity-related genes/gene products were found to form a complex interactions network.
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