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Genetics of obesity and human energy metabolism

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 February 2007

Claude Bouchard ,
Jean-Pierre Despres  and
Angelo Tremblay
Claude Bouchard
Affiliation:
Laboratoire des Sciences de I'Activité Physique, PEPS, Universite Laval, Ste-Foy, Québec, Canada, G1K 7P4
Jean-Pierre Despres
Affiliation:
Laboratoire des Sciences de I'Activité Physique, PEPS, Universite Laval, Ste-Foy, Québec, Canada, G1K 7P4
Angelo Tremblay
Affiliation:
Laboratoire des Sciences de I'Activité Physique, PEPS, Universite Laval, Ste-Foy, Québec, Canada, G1K 7P4
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Symposium on ‘Nutrient–gene interactions’
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Proceedings of the Nutrition Society , Volume 50 , Issue 2 , August 1991 , pp. 139 - 147
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The Nutrition Society

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