Genetics of human obesity: recent results from linkage studies.

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Excess body fat or body mass relative to height aggregates in families. It is commonly recognized that this familial aggregation of human obesity is accounted for in part by a significant genetic component. Thus the genetic heritability of the obesity phenotypes accounts for approximately 25-40% of the age- and gender-adjusted phenotypic variances. There is also growing evidence that single-gene effects can be...

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