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We therefore designed a custom genotyping array to screen a cohort of UK patients seeking treatment for severe obesity in a cost-effective way. A total of 1,714 participants were genotyped using a custom AXIOM array, focusing on rare (minor allele frequency\u2009&lt;\u20090.01) variants, with CADD-PHRED\u2009\u2265\u200915 in 78 genes known\/suspected to cause Mendelian forms of obesity. Concordance analyses of 22 duplicate samples and 66 samples with whole exome sequence data revealed good genotyping reliability. We identified the proportion of study participants who carried, or were homozygous for, rare, predicted-deleterious variants in genes with dominant and recessive modes of inheritance (MOI), respectively. 27% of patients carried relevant mutations consistent with the expected MOI, which was very similar to the rate observed in the UKB 50\u00a0K whole exome sequencing dataset. 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