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Heritability of the weight loss response to gastric bypass surgery.
The Journal of clinical endocrinology and metabolism - 1 Oct 2011
Hatoum Ida J, Greenawalt Danielle M, Cotsapas Chris, Reitman Marc L, Daly Mark J, Kaplan Lee M
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CONTEXT: The use of Roux-en-Y gastric bypass (RYGB) surgery to treat severe obesity has grown dramatically. RYGB is highly effective, but the response in individual patients varies widely, and clinical predictors have been able to explain only a fraction of this variation. OBJECTIVE: Our objective was to determine whether there is a significant genetic contribution to weight loss after RYGB. METHODS: We genotyped...
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