Genetic models of obesity and energy balance in the mouse.

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Obesity is a health problem of epidemic proportions in the industrialized world. The cloning and characterization of the genes for the five naturally occurring monogenic obesity syndromes in the mouse have led to major breakthroughs in understanding the physiology of energy balance and the contribution of genetics to obesity in the human population. However, the regulation of energy balance is an extremely...

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