Are you obese? Here’s hope for you!
13 04 2007A Wellcome Trust-funded English study has led to the identification of a gene, which significantly raises the incidence of obesity in the general population.
Scientists from the Peninsula Medical School in Exeter and the University of Oxford, who conducted the study, say that people with two copies of the FTO gene variant have a 70 per cent higher risk of being obese than those without it.
