[Evaluating genetics and environment in development of obesity].

Article

[Evaluating genetics and environment in development of obesity].

Acta medica Austriaca - 1 Jan 1998

Lechleitner M, Hoppichler F

Abstract excerpt

Previous studies with twins had demonstrated that heredity exerts a definite impact on the development of overweight even more than environmental conditions of nutrition. In recent years studies of molecular genetics in imbred obese mice lead to the discovery of the ob-gene coding for the express...

Topics

Animals
Carrier Proteins
Humans
Leptin
Mice
Mice, Obese
Mutation
Obesity
Proteins
Receptors, Cell Surface
Receptors, Leptin
Risk Factors
Social Environment

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