Dogs are a good model for studying human obesity because they develop obesity through similar environmental influences as ...

A study from the University of Cambridge has uncovered a genetic link between Labrador retrievers and humans that sheds new ...

The OriGen Health Research Center will mine a massive biobank of genetic, clinical and epidemiological information to develop ...

The problem of obesity in children has increased considerably in India in recent years. It leads to serious health ...

Over a decade of studies at Mayo Clinic have helped identify characteristics that can be associated with groups of people called obesity phenotypes. Each phenotype has a single genetic ...

Kids are more likely to maintain a healthy weight if their parents adopt a responsive style while they're babies and toddlers ...

To identify candidate obesity genes, Raffan and her team conducted a genome-wide association study for canine obesity in more ...

Some dogs, like Labrador retrievers, are prone to obesity. Scientists have investigated the genetics of British Labrador retrievers and found several obesity-linked genes that were then also ...

Experts advise parents to create a healthy environment by encouraging balanced nutrition and limiting processed foods ...

But DENN1B was just the most significant of a collection of genes that was correlated with obesity. To handle this complexity, the team created a genetic obesity risk score that took all of these ...