Genetic risk for obesity predicts nucleus accumbens size and responsivity to real-world food cues.

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Genetic risk for obesity predicts nucleus accumbens size and responsivity to real-world food cues.

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America - 3 Jan 2017

Rapuano Kristina M, Zieselman Amanda L, Kelley William M, Sargent James D, Heatherton Todd F, Gilbert-Diamond Diane

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Obesity is a major public health concern that involves an interaction between genetic susceptibility and exposure to environmental cues (e.g., food marketing); however, the mechanisms that link these factors and contribute to unhealthy eating are unclear. Using a well-known obesity risk polymorphism (FTO rs9939609) in a sample of 78 children (ages 9-12 y), we observed that children at risk for obesity exhibited...

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DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1605548113
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