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Gene × environment interactions in obesity: the state of the evidence.
Human heredity - 1 Jan 2013
Ahmad Shafqat, Varga Tibor V, Franks Paul W
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BACKGROUND/AIMS: Obesity is a pervasive and highly prevalent disease that poses substantial health risks to those it affects. The rapid emergence of obesity as a global epidemic and the patterns and distributions of the condition within and between populations suggest that interactions between inherited biological factors (e.g. genes) and relevant environmental factors (e.g. diet and physical activity) may...
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