Although the Bardet-Biedl syndrome (BBS: severe obesity, polydactyly, learning disabilities, retinopathy, renal disease and cardiac malformations) was described more than 80 years ago, it is only over the past few years that extensive data on the natural history and molecular pathogenesis of this
Human diseases caused by defects of the primary cilium (ciliopathies) are a group of distinct disorders with overlapping features. Clinical features of ciliopathies include fibrocystic disease of the kidneys and liver, retinal degeneration, obesity, structural and functional defects of the central