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Two novel candidate genes identified in adults from the Newfoundland population with addictive tendencies towards food.
Appetite - 1 Aug 2017
Pedram Pardis, Zhai Guangju, Gulliver Wayne, Zhang Hongwei, Sun Guang
Abstract excerpt
Food addiction (FA) is a distinguished clinical feature affecting about 5% adults of the general population in Canada. FA contributes to obesity, however, the underlying genes in FA are largely unknown. The aim of the current study was to search for FA candidate genes using an exome sequencing followed by a verification study using the most significantly associated identified genes. From a total of 752 adults, 24...
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