The Genetics of Obesity

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Grant, Struan F.A (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: New York, NY : Springer New York : Imprint: Springer, 2014.
• Subjects: Medicine.; Human genetics.; Endocrinology.; Biomedicine.; Human Genetics.; Biomedicine general.

In the past four years, many genetic loci have been implicated for BMI from the outcomes of genome-wide association studies (GWAS), primarily in adults. Insulin-induced gene 2 (INSIG2) was the first locus to be reported by this method to have a role in obesity, but replication attempts have yielded...