Genetic studies of common types of obesity: a critique of the current use of phenotypes.

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Recent research into the genetic basis of obesity has focused upon the study of candidate genes, both functional and positional, of genes underlying weight-related Mendelian disorders and of susceptibility loci identified in genome-wide association studies. Three large genome-wide association studies on obesity, together involving more than 150,000 individuals, were published in Nature Genetics last year. The...

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