Johns Hopkins scientists find genes related to body mass

Thursday, September 16, 2010 - 01:07 in Biology & Nature

Johns Hopkins scientists who specialise in unconventional hunts for genetic information outside nuclear DNA sequences have bagged a weighty quarry - 13 genes linked to human body mass. The experiments screened the so-called epigenome for key information that cells remember other than the DNA code itself and may have serious implications for preventing and treating obesity, the investigators say...

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