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Study discovers genetic pathways to understand obesity - ANI News

Study discovers genetic pathways to understand obesity - ANI News

Study discovers genetic pathways to understand obesity - ANI News
Jan 11, 2022 1 min, 9 secs

London [UK], January 11 (ANI): A new study has helped to shine light on the genetic pathways underlying obesity which could help develop more personalised ways to help people maintain a healthy weight.

The work was supported by the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Guy's and St Thomas' Biomedical Research Centre.

The team behind the study were from the Department of Twin Research and Genetic Epidemiology, King's College London and the NIHR BioResource.

Senior author Dr Cristina Menni from the Department of Twin Research and Genetic Epidemiology, King's College London said: "These results could have many practical implications.

Our findings could help understand certain diseases.".

It is very early research, but in the future, these findings could help to develop approaches to maintaining a healthy weight which takes into account a person's genetic profile," Dr Menni added.

Dr Massimo Mangino, senior bio-informatician from the NHIR Guy's and St Thomas' Biomedical Research Centre and lead author of the study, said: "Obesity is one of the most common conditions, and yet there's still so much we need to understand about its biological mechanisms.

Our latest findings may help to unravel some of them.

Dr Pirro Hysi from the Department of Twin Research and Genetic Epidemiology added: "This study is the largest scale study of its kind of metabolite levels to date and its results enhance our knowledge of genetic mechanisms controlling human metabolism

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