On the futility of screening for genes that make you fat

PLoS Medicine

Volumn 8, Issue 11, 2011, Pages

  Veerman, J Lennert ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BODY MASS; EDITORIAL; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; EPIDEMIC; GENE INTERACTION; GENETIC RISK; GENETIC SCREENING; GENETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; GENETIC TRAIT; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOMICS; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HUMAN; OBESITY; PENETRANCE; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; POPULATION GENETICS; PREDICTION; PREVALENCE; PUBLIC HEALTH; RISK REDUCTION; WEIGHT GAIN; WEIGHT REDUCTION; FEMALE; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; GENETICS; MALE; MOTOR ACTIVITY; NOTE; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM;

FTO PROTEIN, HUMAN; PROTEIN;

FEMALE; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; HUMANS; MALE; MOTOR ACTIVITY; OBESITY; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; PROTEINS;

EID: 82455219426     PISSN: 15491277     EISSN: 15491676     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pmed.1001114     Document Type: Editorial

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