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Body mass as a result of psychological, lifestyle and genetic determinants. A pilot study involving overweight/obese and normal weight women in their early adulthood.
PloS one - 1 Jan 2024
Obara-Gołębiowska Małgorzata, Przybyłowicz Katarzyna Eufemia, Danielewicz Anna, Sawicki Tomasz
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AIM: The causes of obesity and overweight are complex and depend on mutually interrelated groups of lifestyle, psychological and genetic factors. Among 46 identified point mutations known within FTO gene, mutation SNP rs9939609 has the strongest effect on an increase in body weight. Therefore, the study aimed to assess psychological, lifestyle and genetic factors (expressed by the frequency of the FTO SNP...
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