Researchers Discover Three Genes That Increase Risk Of Severe Obesity In Kids And Adults
Wednesday, January 21, 2009 - 22:42
in Health & Medicine
European and Canadian researchers have, for the first time, drawn a map of genetic risk factors that can lead to two forms of severe obesity: early-onset obesity in children, and morbid obesity in adults.
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