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Obesity and polymorphisms in genes regulating human adipose tissue.
International journal of obesity (2005) - 1 Nov 2007
Dahlman I, Arner P
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Obesity is the result of an imbalance between food intake and energy expenditure resulting in the storing of energy as fat. Adipose tissue contains the largest store of energy in the body and plays important roles in regulating energy partitioning. Developments in genomics, in particular microarray-based expression profiling, have provided scientists with a number of new candidate genes whose expression in...
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