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Gene environment mismatch in obesity

In today’s New York Times, Carl Zimmer has a nice description of a dangerous gene interaction with the modern environment, resulting in obesity.

Update: Zimmer includes extra material about the FTO gene here.

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Joe Alcock

Emergency Physician, Educator, Researcher, interested in the microbiome, evolution, and medicine

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