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.

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  • 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…

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