Genetics of obesity.

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BACKGROUND: Obesity is a complex phenomenon that involves interactions between environmental and genetics factors. The genetic studies in animal models and humans has allowed great progress in the knowledge of body weight regulation. Identifying the hypothalamic leptin/melanocortin pathway as critical in many cases of monogenic obesity has permitted targeted, hypothesis-driven experiments to be performed, and has...

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