Lack of red hair phenotype in a North-African obese child homozygous for a novel POMC null mutation: nonsense-mediated decay RNA evaluation and hair pigment chemical analysis

MeSH terms

• Adrenocorticotropic Hormone / deficiency*
• Adult
• Child, Preschool
• Codon, Nonsense / genetics*
• Hair / chemistry
• Hair Color / genetics*
• Homozygote
• Humans
• Hypoglycemia / drug therapy
• Male
• Melanins / analysis
• Nonsense Mediated mRNA Decay / genetics*
• Obesity / genetics*
• Pedigree
• Phenotype
• Polymerase Chain Reaction
• Pro-Opiomelanocortin / genetics*
• Young Adult