FTO – A Common Genetic Basis for Obesity and Cancer

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In recent years, the prevalence of obesity and cancer are rising, which poses a serious threat to human health，the relationship between the two has also attracted much attention. Here, fat mass and obesity-associated (FTO) gene can be considered as the link, since Genome-wide Association Study (GWAS) identified multiple single nucleotide polymorphism sites (SNPs) of FTO gene, which shows a correlation with...

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