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Article: Gene pair may incite obesity, depression.
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- Science News
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- September 21, 1996
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Genetic influences on human obesity remain poorly understood, but a provocative new study cites two genetic variations as contributing to that condition, as well as to depression and anxiety.
Young adult women who have certain chemical alterations in regions that lie near and may control the so-called human obesity (OB) gene appear substantially more likely to be obese than women with the more common form of this DNA, according to a report in the September Molecular Psychiatry.
Moreover, it asserts, the same DNA configurations contribute to depression and anxiety in obese young women.
When these changes near the OB gene occur in combination with a ...