Disorders

Obesity, MC4R-Related

Gene	Locus	Protein
MC4R	18q22	Melanocortin receptor 4

Laboratory	Test Method	Prenatal	Carrier *
All Children's Hospital, Clinical Molecular Genetics Laboratory - St. Petersburg, FL, USA
Amplexa Genetics A/S, Amplexa Genetics - Odense, Denmark
Athena Diagnostics Inc, Reference Lab - Worcester, MA, USA
bio.logis Center for Human Genetics - Frankfurt, Germany
Center for Human Genetics, Bioscientia GmbH - Ingelheim, Germany	• Linkage analysis
Endokrinologikum Hamburg - Center for Hormonal and Metabolic Diseases, Prenatal, and Reproductive Medicine, Molecular Diagnostics - Hamburg, Germany
GGA - Galil Genetic Analysis - Kazerin, Israel
Health Care Center GENOMED, Laboratory of Human Genetics - Warsaw, Poland
Instituto de Medicina Genmica, IMEGEN - Paterna, Spain
MEDGEN, Genetic Diagnostics Laboratory - Warsaw, Poland
Medgene, MedGene - Bratislava, Slovakia
Praxis fuer Humangenetik Wien - Vienna, Austria
Pronto Diagnostics Ltd., ProntoLab - MLPA Lab - Tel Aviv, Israel
Sistemas Genomicos, Medical Genetics Unit - Paterna, Spain
Universidad de Zaragoza, Facultad de Medicina, Laboratorio de Genética Clínica y Genómica Funcional - Zaragoza, Spain	• Targeted mutation analysis
University Hospital Lausanne, DNA Diagnostic Laboratory - Service de Génétique Médicale - Lausanne, Switzerland
University Medical Center Utrecht, Genome Diagnostics Laboratory - Utrecht, Netherlands

^* Carrier column is relevant to autosomal recessive and X-linked inheritance; column will be blank when it is not relevant (e.g. autosomal dominant inheritance, microdeletions/duplications) and/or is not offered by the lab.