Epidemic obesity: are genetic factors involved via increased rates of assortative mating?

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• Publication year

  2000

• Venue

  International Journal of Obesity

• Publication date

  2000-03-01

• Fields of study

  Biology, Medicine

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  DOI 10.1038/sj.ijo.0801135PMID 10757629
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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