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Interaction of genetic and environmental programming of the leptin system and of obesity disposition.
Physiological genomics - 9 Aug 2000
Schmidt I, Schoelch C, Ziska T, Schneider D, Simon E, Plagemann A
Abstract excerpt
Possible adverse interactions between an usually inconspicuous genetic trait and early environmental factors favoring the development of obesity were investigated in rats heterozygous for the leptin receptor defect "fatty" (fa). Pups were exposed to early postnatal overfeeding by reducing litter size from normally 10-12 to only 4. Rearing +/+ and +/fa pups from day 3 to 21 in small litters increased fat-free dry...
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