Summary of copy number variations detected in 157 samples of patients with severe obesity.

Control frequency refers to the frequency of the same type of rearrangement, deletion or duplication, in the control cohort (9,820 subjects). Progenitor phenotype refers only to the progenitor carrying the alteration. Hg19 assembly. F: female; M: male; Mat: maternal; Pat: paternal; N: normal; OW: overweight; OB: obesity; NA: not available; +: description of a mouse model with a phenotype related to body mass index (S1 Table). The genes interrupted at any of the breakpoints of the CNV are shown in boldface.