Heritable Variation in Food Preferences and Their Contribution to Obesity
- 1 January 1997
- journal article
- review article
- Published by Springer Nature in Behavior Genetics
- Vol. 27 (4) , 373-387
- https://doi.org/10.1023/a:1025692031673
Abstract
What an animal chooses to eat can either induce or retard the development of obesity; this review summarizes what is known about the genetic determinants of nutrient selection and its impact on...Keywords
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