Genetics of obesity in humans: current issues.

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During the last decade, we have begun to understand some of the reasons why people become obese as assessed by excess body mass for height or excess total body fat content. Obesity frequently aggregates in families. However, this familial resemblance is caused not only by genetic effects but also by lifestyle, and environmental and cultural factors. Thus the genetic heritability of the obesity phenotypes accounts...

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