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22 - Genetics of chronic disease: obesity

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 August 2009

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I. Sadaf Farooqi  and
Stephen O'Rahilly
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Alan Wright  and
Nicholas Hastie
Alan Wright
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Genes and Common Diseases
Genetics in Modern Medicine
 , pp. 328 - 343
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2007

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