A new finding by the Genetic Investigation of Anthropometric Traits, or GIANT, consortium has identified 97 gene regions associated with obesity, tripling the number of such genes previously known. Joel Hirschhorn, Concordia Professor of Pediatrics at Boston Children’s Hospital, led the research.
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