Table 2.

Characteristics of Participants With Genetic Obesity Syndromes

Genetic obesity syndrome	LEP	LEPR	Control	KSR2	MC4R	Control
Number of participants	6	6	12	13	31	28
Age group (child/adult)	6a/0	5a/1	11a/1	0/13b	4/27b	0/28b
Gender (M/F)	3/3	3/3	6/6	5/8	13/18	11/17
Age, years	8.50 (2.49)	14.2 (1.96)	12.6 (2.51)	32.0 (3.71)	32.7 (2.00)	39.8 (1.73)
Body mass index, kg/m2	42.8 (3.08)	45.2 (3.48)	39.8 (2.67)	34.5 (1.87)	35.1 (1.33)	35.6 (1.20)
Ethnicity
Caucasian	0	3	5	13	19	20
Pakistani	3	1	6	0	11	0
Turkish	2	2	1	0	0	0
Arab	1	0	0	0	0	0
Afro-Caribbean	0	0	0	0	0	1
Mixed	0	0	0	0	1	0
Unknown	0	0	0	0	0	7

Data are presented as mean (SEM)

^a18 years and younger, as shown in Fig. 4A “Children.”

^b18 years and older, as shown in Fig. 4B “Adults.”