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Systems Genetics of Obesity.
Methods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.) - 1 Jan 2017
Brockmann Gudrun A, Arends Danny, Heise Sebastian, Dogan Ayca
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Obesity is a complex trait, determined by many genes and influenced by environmental factors. Mapping genomic loci contributing to obesity helps to identify gene variants responsible for differences in the phenotype. However, measuring fat content alone is often not sufficient to identify the underlying gene or genes. Besides in-depth phenotyping, well-designed genetic populations and the combined analysis of...
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