一种常见的遗传变异与成人和儿童肥胖有关

Alan Herbert1, Norman P Gerry, Matthew B McQueen

  • 1Department of Genetics and Genomics, Boston University Medical School, E613, 715 Albany Street, Boston, MA 02118, USA. aherbert@bu.edu

Science (New York, N.Y.)
|April 15, 2006
PubMed
概括

接近INSIG2基因的常见遗传变异与肥胖有关,肥胖是一种遗传性特征,也是2型糖尿病等疾病的风险因素. 这一发现表明,常见的遗传变异显著影响肥胖的发展.

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