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Hormone sensing transcription factor PPARG

The gene product is a hormone sensing transcription factor. Mutations cause autosomal dominant partial lipodystrophy type 3. Diseases associated with variations include glioma susceptibility 1, obesity, diabetes, and insulin resistance. Somatic mutations are observed in colon cancer cells.

Genetests:

Clinic Method Carrier testing
Turnaround 5 days
Specimen type genomic DNA
Clinic Method Massive parallel sequencing
Turnaround 25 days
Specimen type genomic DNA
Clinic Method Genomic sequencing of the entire coding region
Turnaround 20 days
Specimen type genomic DNA
Clinic Method Multiplex Ligation-Dependent Probe Amplification
Turnaround 20 days
Specimen type genomic DNA

Related Diseases:

Familial partial lipodystrophy type 3
PPARG
Insulin resistance
CIDEC
Diabetes mellitus with insulin resistance and acanthosis nigricans
INSR
ENPP1
IRS1
IRS2
PPARG
Combined familial hyperlipidemia with adipose tissue dysfunction
C5AR2
CREB3L3
LEPR
LIPE
PNPLA2
PPARG
USF1
Severe obesity
PPARG
SIM1
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