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How Your DNA Made You Who You Are - Robert Plomin
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Having a Genetic Propensity for Putting on Weight Is a Lifelong Battle
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obesity is heritable, but that doesn't mean there's nothing you can do about it. No trait is 100 % herritable - body weight is at the higher level of 60%. Most traites are about 50% herritable and personality 40%. But as i said, those influences are largely chance and idiosyncratic. And people are trying to get a genetic predicana predictors. We call them pologetic scores,. They're not due to one jen or a handful gen they're due to thousands ofjens with very tiny effects. The study published last month is based on three million people well I don't know if people will be able to understand its effect. If
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