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Obesity genes revealed
Published in Women's Health Weekly, August 28th, 2008
As the prevalence of obesity and related health problems continues to increase worldwide, there is considerable effort being devoted to identify genetic mechanisms that control fat storage. Maria De Luca led a team from the University of Alabama at Birmingham, USA, who identified candidate genes using different strains of Drosophila.
On the basis of the results of these fly...
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