@hbdchick I wish it were easy for me to compare these kinds of studies to my 23andMe results
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@PuzzlePirate yeah. you'd have to see if 23andMe screened for that KSR2 gene. then you'd have to know which allele was the "obese" one.... -
@hbdchick I check out my raw data and yes it does have that gene, but I don't know which SNP to look at -
@PuzzlePirate ah! sorry. i don't know, either. you'd have to track down the original research article, wherever the h*ck that was published.
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@hbdchick Lol. Because you can't modify your own metabolism, haha! Bogus claims surface yet again to spare fat people a look in the mirror. -
@LMlaurel don't think that's what they're saying. they're just accounting for why some people are obese at a very young age (i.e. as kids). -
@hbdchick I'm not disagreeing. Though I'd ask whether changes to diet and lifestyle could have an epigenetic effect on it. I suspect so. -
@LMlaurel possibly. i'd guess probably. but i'd also guess they'd have a DIFFERENT epigenetic effect on that allele than on others.
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@hbdchick This is just 1 gene, there are probably many more like it. Since the heritability of obesity is 80%, much more to discover. -
@JayMan471 yup! (^_^)
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