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Moving to a personalized medicine approach to promote health across the weight spectrum

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Hunger, J., Tomiyama, A., Nguyen-Cuu, J. et al. Moving to a personalized medicine approach to promote health across the weight spectrum. Int J Obes 40, 1334 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1038/ijo.2016.100

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