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Is There a Genetic Risk Factor That Drives Obesity?
By definition, these common, multi factoral diseases are influenced by a combinatorial collection of risk factors. Coincidentally, we have recently published another study a focusing ona peculiar type of obicity that develops after cessation of cigarette smoking. And to make a long story short, wev found a similar co operation between the microbium and the host in generating compounds that could drive this obesity a phenomenon after smoking cessation. So it seems that the concept, which we term the holobiant concept, in which you can regard a human as a combined set of microbs and human cells, could contribute to many of the more complex health outcomes that are so concerning to many people.