The obesity epidemic: From the environment to epigenetics - not simply a response to dietary manipulation in a thermoneutral environment

Frontiers in Genetics

Volumn 2, Issue MAY, 2011, Pages

  Symonds, Michael E ^a   Sebert, Sylvain ^a   Budge, Helen ^a  

^a NOTTINGHAM UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS NHS TRUST   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Brown adipose tissue; Development; FTO; Obesity; Photoperiod

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA;

EID: 84863553003     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16648021     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fgene.2011.00024     Document Type: Article

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