The inheritance of obesity.

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Syndromic adiposity appears to have a predisposition to run in families suggesting a hereditary element in its transmission. Purely genetic defects and DNA sequence variants have been directly associated with the development of adiposity; however, these account for a very small proportion of cases. A stronger association has been made between the intrauterine and early childhood nutritional environment of the...

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