Genetics of Pathways Regulating Body Weight in the Development of Obesity in Humans

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Although rapid globalization of the Westernized way of life is responsible for the large rise in the number of obesity cases (about 1 billion individuals are now overweight or frankly obese), obesity is a typical common multifactorial disease in that environmental and genetic factors interact, resulting in a disease state. There is strong evidence for a genetic component to human obesity: e.g., the familial...

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