Closing the distance on obesity culprits

David U. Gorkin () and Bing Ren ()
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David U. Gorkin: David U. Gorkin and Bing Ren are at the Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research, La Jolla, California 92093, USA.
Bing Ren: David U. Gorkin and Bing Ren are at the Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research, La Jolla, California 92093, USA.

Nature, 2014, vol. 507, issue 7492, 309-310

Abstract: Genetic variation in a non-protein-coding region of the gene FTO is implicated in obesity. A study finds evidence that, rather than affecting FTO itself, variations in this region influence expression of a distant gene, IRX3. See Letter p.371

Date: 2014
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