Both research teams – one led by deCode Genetics, an Icelandic biotechnology company, and the other an international academic consortium – published their findings on the 14 Dec in the journal Nature Genetics.
The discoveries will be important for the global fight against obesity, one of the greatest public health problems of the 21st century.
The most significant feature of the newly identified genes is that almost all of them are active in the brain, implying that they affect appetite rather than the biochemical processes of energy or fat metabolism.
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