Identifying underlying medical causes of pediatric obesity: Results of a systematic diagnostic approach in a pediatric obesity center

• Lotte Kleinendorst ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Lotte Kleinendorst, Ozair Abawi

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft

  Affiliations Obesity Center CGG, Erasmus MC, University Medical Center Rotterdam, Rotterdam, The Netherlands, Department of Clinical Genetics, Amsterdam UMC, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, Department of Clinical Genetics, Amsterdam UMC, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

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• Ozair Abawi ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Lotte Kleinendorst, Ozair Abawi

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft

  Affiliations Obesity Center CGG, Erasmus MC, University Medical Center Rotterdam, Rotterdam, The Netherlands, Division of Endocrinology, Department of Pediatrics, Erasmus MC-Sophia Children’s Hospital, University Medical Center Rotterdam, Rotterdam, The Netherlands

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1343-6562

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• Bibian van der Voorn,

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Resources, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Obesity Center CGG, Erasmus MC, University Medical Center Rotterdam, Rotterdam, The Netherlands, Division of Endocrinology, Department of Pediatrics, Erasmus MC-Sophia Children’s Hospital, University Medical Center Rotterdam, Rotterdam, The Netherlands, Division of Endocrinology, Department of Internal Medicine, Erasmus MC, University Medical Center Rotterdam, Rotterdam, The Netherlands

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• Mieke H. T. M. Jongejan,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, Obesity Center CGG, Franciscus Gasthuis, Rotterdam, The Netherlands

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• Annelies E. Brandsma,

  Roles Data curation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, Obesity Center CGG, Maasstad Ziekenhuis, Rotterdam, The Netherlands

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• Jenny A. Visser,

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Resources, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Obesity Center CGG, Erasmus MC, University Medical Center Rotterdam, Rotterdam, The Netherlands, Division of Endocrinology, Department of Internal Medicine, Erasmus MC, University Medical Center Rotterdam, Rotterdam, The Netherlands

  http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7182-3571

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• Elisabeth F. C. van Rossum,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Obesity Center CGG, Erasmus MC, University Medical Center Rotterdam, Rotterdam, The Netherlands, Division of Endocrinology, Department of Internal Medicine, Erasmus MC, University Medical Center Rotterdam, Rotterdam, The Netherlands

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• Bert van der Zwaag,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Software, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Genetics, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands

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• Mariëlle Alders,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Software, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Clinical Genetics, Amsterdam UMC, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

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• Elles M. J. Boon,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Software, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Clinical Genetics, Amsterdam UMC, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, Department of Clinical Genetics, Amsterdam UMC, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

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• Mieke M. van Haelst ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliations Department of Clinical Genetics, Amsterdam UMC, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, Department of Clinical Genetics, Amsterdam UMC, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

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• Erica L. T. van den Akker

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Supervision, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: e.l.t.vandenakker@erasmusmc.nl

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliations Department of Clinical Genetics, Amsterdam UMC, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, Department of Clinical Genetics, Amsterdam UMC, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

  http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5352-9328

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