From influencing how our body stores fat to how our brain regulates appetite, hundreds of genes, along with environmental factors, collectively determine our weight and body size. Now, researchers add several genes, which appear to affect obesity risk in certain sexes and ages, to that list. The study, published on August 2 in the journal Cell Genomics, may shed light on new biological pathways that underlie obesity and highlight how sex and age contribute to health and disease. "There are a million and one reasons why we should be thinking about sex, age, and other specific mechanisms rather than just lumping everyone together and assuming that disease mechanism works the same way for everyone," says senior author John Perry ( @jrbperry ), a geneticist and professor at the Wellcome-MRC Institute of Metabolic Science, University of Cambridge, U.

https://www.miragenews.com/obesity-linked-to-age-and-sex-specific-genes-1058776/

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