Tag: Joel Hirschhorn

  • Health

    Progress on obesity

    Researchers have identified 18 gene sites associated with obesity and 13 associated with body fat distribution, helping to unravel the riddle of obesity.

    4–6 minutes
  • Health

    First robust genetic link to height in humans identified

    Over a century ago, scientists first proposed that height is a complex trait — one influenced by environmental factors and multiple genes. While subsequent studies revealed that most of the variation in adult height is genetically determined, there has been little success in pinpointing the responsible genes. Some clues have come from rare syndromes of…

    1–2 minutes