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How Genetics influences our body weight beyond Genes

Heredity plays a role in how strongly we are predisposed to put on excess weight. In recent years, researchers have extensively examined which genes and gene variants play a role in this, and have identified roughly one hundred obesity susceptibility genes.

However, genome-wide association studies have shown that less than half of all cases of hereditary obesity can be explained by these genes.