[Genomwide association studies on obesity: what can we learn from these studies].

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The introduction of genome-wide association studies resulted in a tremendous increase in the number of genes associated with obesity and related phenotypes (BMI, waist and waist-hip-ratio). Despite this enormous gain in knowledge the search for genes is only started since only a small fraction of the heritability of these phenotypes is explained yet: each single gene of the 97 hitherto known BMI-associated genes...

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