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Obesity may be a neurodevelopmental disorder – Neuroscience News

Summary: Obesity is, in part, determined by epigenetic development in the arcuate nucleus of the hypothalamus. The results suggest that developmental epigenetics play an important role in environmental and genetic influences on obesity risk. Source: Baylor College of Medicine Obesity has grown rapidly over the past decades to affect more than 2 billion people, making …

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