Genetics of obesity: towards the understanding of a complex syndrome.

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GENETICS AND ENVIRONMENT: Obesity is a multifactorial disease combining the effects of genetic predisposition with very powerful environmental risk factors. Recent genetic studies have demonstrated that there is a continuum between different forms of human obesity. SINGLE GENE FACTORS: In certain cases, mainly cases of very severe obesity with childhood onset, a single gene would play a permissive role allowing...

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