Prdx5 deficiency leads to increased susceptibility to high-fat-diet-induced obesity, and thus Prdx5-knockout mice fed a high-fat diet show several metabolic abnormalities, including increased body weight, adipocyte hypertrophy, fat accumulation in the liver, hepatic steatosis, and an increased triglyceride level in the serum [94,96]. Here, PRDX5 is linked to obesity due to melanocortin 4 receptor deficiency.