The study of the rs9939609 FTO gene polymorphism in association with obesity and the management of obesity in a Romanian cohort.

ABSTRACT: The incidence of obesity especially in Romanian population is presently escalating as a major nutrition and health problem. Clinicians aided by scientists are engaged in research approaches that include heredity aspects linked with behavior, education, applied nutrition studies and clinical therapies in order to prevent, control and reverse obesity. The common goal is to identify areas of basic and clinical research to understand aspects of human biology that may be considered as obesogenic. Regarding these approaches, recent discoveries in genetics, epigenetics and functional genomics, based on advancing technologies, are tools employed to prevent and treat obesity. The purpose of this article is to present the current knowledge of key components of the FTO gene role in the obesogenic sys

SUBMITTER: Ursu RI 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4392093 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Apr-Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature