On a high-fat diet, protective gene variant becomes bad actor

Wednesday, January 7, 2009 - 10:28 in Health & Medicine

New evidence in mice bolsters the notion that a version of a gene earlier shown to protect lean people against weight gain and insulin resistance can have the opposite effect in those who eat a high-fat diet and are heavier, reveals a report in the 7th January issue of the journal Cell Metabolism, a Cell Press publication...

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