Evolutionary perspectives on the obesity epidemic: Adaptive, maladaptive, and neutral viewpoints

Annual Review of Nutrition

Volumn 33, Issue , 2013, Pages 289-317

  Speakman, John R ^a,b  

^a INSTITUTE OF GENETICS AND DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Brown adipose tissue; Drifty gene; Obesity; Selection; Thrifty gene

Indexed keywords

ADIPOSE TISSUE; AGRICULTURAL WORKER; BODY MASS; CALORIC INTAKE; CHROMOSOME 1; CHROMOSOME 10; CHROMOSOME 11; CHROMOSOME 12; CHROMOSOME 13; CHROMOSOME 14; CHROMOSOME 15; CHROMOSOME 16; CHROMOSOME 18; CHROMOSOME 19; CHROMOSOME 2; CHROMOSOME 3; CHROMOSOME 4; CHROMOSOME 5; CHROMOSOME 6; CHROMOSOME 9; EPIDEMIC; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; HUMAN; HUNGER; LIPID STORAGE; MORTALITY; OBESITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; STARVATION; THERMOGENESIS; WEIGHT GAIN;

ADAPTATION, BIOLOGICAL; ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADIPOSE TISSUE; ADIPOSITY; ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; ENERGY METABOLISM; FOOD PREFERENCES; GENETIC DRIFT; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MOTOR ACTIVITY; OBESITY; PANDEMICS; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; SELECTION, GENETIC;

EID: 84880669127     PISSN: 01999885     EISSN: 15454312     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev-nutr-071811-150711     Document Type: Review

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