Heritability: The family roots of obesity

Cassandra Willyard
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Cassandra Willyard: Cassandra Willyard is a freelance science writer based in Madison, Wisconsin.

Nature, 2014, vol. 508, issue 7496, S58-S60

Abstract: Scores of genes are implicated in obesity, but they cannot account for a family's predisposition to obesity. Are there other ways parents can influence their children?

Date: 2014
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DOI: 10.1038/508S58a

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