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GENETICS: Mysterious, Widespread Obesity Gene Found Through Diabetes Study
Jocelyn Kaiser
Researchers have found the first clear-cut evidence for a common gene that helps explain why some people get fat and others stay trim, they report online in Science this week (www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/abstract/1141634). (Read more.)
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Timothy M. Frayling, Nicholas J. Timpson, Michael N. Weedon, Eleftheria Zeggini, Rachel M. Freathy, Cecilia M. Lindgren, John R. B. Perry, Katherine S. Elliott, Hana Lango, Nigel W. Rayner, Beverley Shields, Lorna W. Harries, Jeffrey C. Barrett, Sian Ellard, Christopher J. Groves, Bridget Knight, Ann-Marie Patch, Andrew R. Ness, Shah Ebrahim, Debbie A. Lawlor, Susan M. Ring, Yoav Ben-Shlomo, Marjo-Riitta Jarvelin, Ulla Sovio, Amanda J. Bennett, David Melzer, Luigi Ferrucci, Ruth J. F. Loos, Inês Barroso, Nicholas J. Wareham, Fredrik Karpe, Katharine R. Owen, Lon R. Cardon, Mark Walker, Graham A. Hitman, Colin N. A. Palmer, Alex S. F. Doney, Andrew D. Morris, George Davey Smith, The Wellcome Trust Case Control Consortium, Andrew T. Hattersley, and Mark I. McCarthy (11 May 2007) Science316 (5826), 889.
[DOI: 10.1126/science.1141634] |Abstract »|Full Text »|PDF »|Supporting Online Material »
