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Copy-Number Level of Amylase Gene Linked to Obesity Risk

Mar 31, 2014
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NEW YORK (GenomeWeb News) — Researchers have linked low copy-number levels of the salivary amylase gene to obesity risk, a finding they reported in Nature Genetics yesterday.

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