Genetics of Obesity: What We Have Learned Over Decades of Research.

Abstract excerpt

There is a genetic component to human obesity that accounts for 40% to 50% of the variability in body weight status but that is lower among normal weight individuals (about 30%) and substantially higher in the subpopulation of individuals with obesity and severe obesity (about 60%-80%). The appreciation that heritability varies across classes of BMI represents an important advance. After controlling for BMI,...

Topics

• Adolescent
• Adult
• Child
• Child, Preschool
• Female
• Genetic Predisposition to Disease
• Humans
• Male
• Obesity
• Young Adult