New genomic technique reveals obesity gene variants

Monday, November 29, 2010 - 22:20 in Biology & Nature

Obesity is highly heritable, but so far genetic association studies have only explained a small fraction of this heritability. Now, researchers have identified DNA variants in two nervous system genes that are associated with an excessively high BMI.

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