Thrifty genes for obesity, an attractive but flawed idea, and an alternative perspective: the ‘drifty gene’ hypothesis

2008/10/14 by John R. Speakman, J R Speakman · 4 citations
Medicine · #Birth, Development, and Health #Diet and metabolism studies #Diet, Metabolism, and Disease

paper · doi:10.1038/ijo.2008.161

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