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Obesity: A reckoning both for genetic immunity to infection and xenogamy.

Medical hypotheses - 1 Jan 2006

Rumyantsev Sergey N

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It is hypothesized that the genesis and spread of obesity is predetermined by genetic immunity to infections and subsequent interethnic genetic admixture. As in genetic immunity to infections, obesity is determined by a constitutional incongruence between relevant acting agents and their molecular targets. Because many hormones share their specific receptors with the acting molecules of infectious agents, mutant...

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PMID: 16253427
DOI: 10.1016/j.mehy.2005.09.014

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