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Individuality and epigenetics in obesity.
Obesity reviews : an official journal of the International Association for the Study of Obesity - 1 Jul 2009
Campión J, Milagro F I, Martínez J A
Abstract excerpt
Excessive weight gain arises from the interactions among environmental factors, genetic predisposition and the individual behavior. However, it is becoming evident that interindividual differences in obesity susceptibility depend also on epigenetic factors. Epigenetics studies the heritable changes in gene expression that do not involve changes to the underlying DNA sequence. These processes include DNA...
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