Behavioural susceptibility to environmental influences in obesity- evidence from a companion animal model.

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Obesity is often pejoratively viewed as the consequence of poor self-restraint with the influence of genetics on individuals’ drive to eat overlooked. We studied pet dogs (Canis familiaris) as a compelling animal model in which obesity develops spontaneously, subject to similar environmental influences as in their human counterparts and in which artificial selection means dogs within a breed are genetically...

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