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Frugal fat or munificent muscle: genomic imprinting and metabolism
Variation in body composition is a popular obsession. The culturally ‘ideal’ body type is light on fat and heavy on muscle but the human population is collectively laying on fat. A new study finds antagonistic effects of two imprinted genes, Grb10 and Dlk1, on body composition in mice. These finding...
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| Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
| Lenguaje: | English |
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BioMed Central
2014
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| Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4280740/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25551395 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12915-014-0104-2 |