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#133 – Manolis Kellis: Biology of Disease
Lex Fridman Podcast
The FTO Gene and the Puzzle of Obesity
In 2007, scientists discovered the strongest genetic association with obesity and knew nothing about how it works for almost 10 years. "When you know the circuitry, you can now go crazy," he says. By editing one nucleotide out of 3.2 billion in the human genome, a person could flip between an obese phenotype and a lean phenotype like a switch.
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