Thrifty genes and human obesity. Are we chasing ghosts?
- 22 September 2001
- journal article
- review article
- Published by Elsevier in The Lancet
- Vol. 358 (9286) , 1006-1008
- https://doi.org/10.1016/s0140-6736(01)06110-4
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