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Published online 16 March 2007 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news070312-9
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How fat genes differ from thin ones
Resequencing effort unpicks genetics of body extremes.
Researchers have used a new technique to hunt for rare genetic quirks that explain why some people are extremely fat or very thin.
The researchers, led by Len Pennacchio of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in California, studied 757 Canadians from Ottawa.
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