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SUBMITTER: Xia Q
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3717174 | biostudies-literature | 2013 Apr
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Xia Qianghua Q Grant Struan F A SF
Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences 20130129
It has long been known that there is a genetic component to obesity, and that characterizing this underlying factor would likely offer the possibility of better intervention in the future. Monogenic obesity has proved to be relatively straightforward, with a combination of linkage analysis and mouse models facilitating the identification of multiple genes. In contrast, genome-wide association studies have successfully revealed a variety of genetic loci associated with the more common form of obe ...[more]