Obesity gene, carried by more than a third of the US population, leads to brain tissue loss

Monday, April 19, 2010 - 16:50 in Health & Medicine

Three years ago, geneticists reported the startling discovery that nearly half of all people in the U.S. with European ancestry carry a variant of the fat mass and obesity associated (FTO) gene,...

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