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Research reveals how genetic differences in body fat affect men and women’s health risks – News-Medical.Net
New research is revealing how genetic differences in the fat in men’s and women’s bodies affect the diseases each sex is likely to get.
Reviewed by Emily Henderson, B.Sc.Sep 28 2020
New research is revealing how genetic differences in the fat in men’s and women’s bodies affect the diseases each sex is likely to get.
University of Virginia researchers Mete Civelek, PhD, Warren Anderson, PhD, and their collaborators have determined that differences in fat storage and formation in men and women strongly affect the activity of 162 different genes found in fat tissue. Further, 13 of the genes come in variants that have different ef…
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