1 Association study between near-MC4R variants and obesity-related variables in Portuguese young adults Licínio Manco 1,2 , Magdalena Muc 1 , Cristina Padez 1,2 1 Department of Life Sciences, University of Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal 2 Research Centre for Anthropology and Health (CIAS), University of Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal Correspondence to: Licínio Manco, PhD Research Centre for Anthropology and Health (CIAS) Department of Life Sciences University of Coimbra 3000-456 Coimbra (Portugal) Phone: +351239240700 Fax: +351239855211 E-mail: lmanco@antrop.uc.pt