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Wednesday, April 19, 2006
Scientists found an obesity gene
Other obesity genes have been found but are very rare; this one occurs in roughly 10 percent of white and black people. According to researchers, "Those who inherit two copies of the variant, one from each parent, have a 22 percent extra risk of becoming obese." Inheriting one copy alone might increase your risk, but not enough to show up as statistically significant in this study. Since the gene appears to be more than 50,000 years old, researchers figure it became harmful only after something new in our environment, "presumably high-calorie food, interacted with it."
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