Research Links Gene Mutation To Obesity

CNN (6/20, Holcombe) reports, “Obesity isn’t just a matter of food and exercise – it may be in your genetic code, according to... research” published in Med. Investigators looked at data from the UK Biobank, comparing “data from people with two faulty copies of a particular gene (SMIM1) and those who did not have the two faulty copies.” The researchers found that “women with the gene mutation weighed an extra 4.6 kilograms (10.14 pounds), and men with the variant weighed an extra 2.4 kilograms (5.29 pounds).”