[Obesity: the epidemic of the new millennium between genetics and environment].

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Obesity is a complex epidemic disease, resulting from the interaction of predisposing genetic factors and causal environmental and behavioral factors. The latter are primarily responsible for the recent epidemic. In recent years, genome-wide association studies have identified genetic variants associated with the development of obesity. Though discoveries in this field may hopefully lead to a personalized...

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