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#133 – Manolis Kellis: Biology of Disease
Lex Fridman Podcast
Is FTO Associated With Obesity?
The strongest genetic association with obesity was discovered in this FTO gene, fat and obesity associated gene. It might actually impact another gene that's a million nucleotides away. So it's just riding along even though it has nothing to do with this nearby neighborhood. And we basically said, oh great, that means that epi transcriptomics is hugely involved in obesity.
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