2023
Hyperinsulinemia is a probable trigger for weight gain and hyperphagia in individuals with Prader‐Willi syndrome
Obesity Science & Practice
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Clinical Geneticist
The overarching goal of Dr. Driscoll’s research is to blend meaningful discoveries at the laboratory bench and the patient’s bedside which ultimately will result in significant beneficial treatments for both children and adults. His research interests are focused in three interrelated areas that combine his clinical and basic science expertise; Genomic imprinting/Epigenetics; Prader-Willi syndrome; and early-onset major obesity (EMO).
Prader-Willi syndrome (PWS) is the most frequently diagnosed genetic cause of obesity and it is the result of a derangement in genomic imprinting. Our lab is using PWS as a model system to better understand both childhood obesity and the phenomenon of genomic imprinting.
122 publications
2023
Obesity Science & Practice
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GeneReviews
2022
Obesity (Silver Spring, Md.)
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Journal of Clinical Medicine
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Orphanet journal of rare diseases
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