[Genomic approach to obesity: understanding a complex syndrome].

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Obesity is a multifactoral condition. Environmental risk factors related to sedentary lifestyle and unlimited access to food apply constant pressure in subjects with a genetic make-up predisposing to gaining weight. Recent genetic studies have demonstrated a continuum among the different forms of human obesity: certain cases, mainly very severe forms beginning in childhood, are monogenic conditions transmitted by...

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