Can genes be blamed for obesity?
Tags: OBESITY -- Genetic aspects; GENES; HEALTH
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- Newest fat gene. // Joe Weider's Muscle & Fitness;Feb96, Vol. 57 Issue 2, p33
Reports on the discovery of a fat gene by researchers at the Johns Hopkins Medical Centers. Involvement of the beta-3 adrenergic receptor; Possible member of a group of factors producing the genetic component of obesity.
- GET THAT GENE IN THERAPY! // Joe Weider's Muscle & Fitness;Jun2001, Vol. 62 Issue 6, p56
Provides information on Beacon, an obesity gene. How the gene was discovery; Importance in weight loss.
- Mapping obesity genes. // Healthy Weight Journal;Jan/Feb2001, Vol. 15 Issue 1, p3
Editorial. Presents an update on the efforts of researchers at Laval University in Quebec City, Quebec to identify human obesity genes and markers. Overview of findings; Discussion on the attempts to relate DNA sequence variation in specific genes to obesity phenotypes.
- Identification of the gene that, when mutated, causes the human obesity syndrome BBS4. Mykytyn, Kirk; Braun, Terry; Carmi, Rivka; Haider, Neena B.; Searby, Charles C.; Shastri, Mythreyi; Beck, Gretel; Wright, Alan F.; Iannaccone, Alessandro; Elbedour, Khalil; Riise, Ruth; Baldi, Alfonso; Raas-Rothschild, Annick; Gorman, Susan W.; Duhl, David M.; Jacobson, Samuel G.; Casavant, Thomas; Stone, Edwin M.; Sheffield, Val C. // Nature Genetics;Jun2001, Vol. 28 Issue 2, p188
Bardet?Biedl syndrome (BBS, MIM 209900) is a heterogeneous autosomal recessive disorder characterized by obesity, pigmentary retinopathy, polydactyly, renal malformations, mental retardation, and hypogenitalism. The disorder is also associated with diabetes mellitus, hypertension, and congenital...
- Chronic high-fat diet in fathers programs ?-cell dysfunction in female rat offspring. Sheau-Fang Ng; Lin, Ruby C. Y.; Laybutt, D. Ross; Barres, Romain; Owens, Julie A.; Morris, Margaret J. // Nature;10/21/2010, Vol. 467 Issue 7318, p963
The global prevalence of obesity is increasing across most ages in both sexes. This is contributing to the early emergence of type 2 diabetes and its related epidemic. Having either parent obese is an independent risk factor for childhood obesity. Although the detrimental impacts of diet-induced...
- Obesity in Pima Indians: Genetic segregation analyses of body mass index complicated by temporal... Price, R. Arlen; Charles, Marie Aline // Human Biology;Apr94, Vol. 66 Issue 2, p251
Studies the occurrence of obesity in Pima Indians in Arizona using the genetic segregation analyses of body mass index. Phenotypic comparisons within and between generations; Identification of recessive and codominant major gene inheritance; Gene penetrance and expression; Effect of temporal...
- Genetic Architecture of Adiposity and Organ Weight Using Combined Generation QTL Analysis. Fawcett, Gloria L.; Roseman, Charles C.; Jarvis, Joseph P.; Wang, Bing; Wolf, Jason B.; Cheverud, James M. // Obesity (19307381);Aug2008, Vol. 16 Issue 8, p1861
The article focuses on a study which examines heritable contributions and genetic architecture of adiposity and organ weights using combined generation quantitative trait loci (QTLs). It notes that the study is an initial step in fine-mapping obesity QTLs in an AIL. It states that the analysis...
- BLUE GENES. // Men's Fitness;May2008, Vol. 24 Issue 4, p33
The article reports on a study on obesity that was published in the journal "BMC Genetics." According to the study, there is no such thing as an obesity gene. Instead, researchers have identified more than 6,000 different genes, all of which have an impact on a person's weight. It is noted that...
- A supersized list of obesity genes. Hofker, Marten; Wijmenga, Cisca // Nature Genetics;Feb2009, Vol. 41 Issue 2, p139
Obesity genetics is making progress, as evidenced by the recent discovery of 15 new loci associated with body mass index. The function of the likely candidate genes in associated regions suggests a key role for the hypothalamus in the genetics of weight control.
