Obesity- Are My Genes to Blame?

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Review the role of genetics in the control of food intake and body-weight, the fate hormone-leptin, and the hypothalamic melanocortin pathway with Dr Giles Yeo, from the Metabolic Research Labs at the University of Cambridge as he discusses how differences in our genetic make-up cause us to respond differently to the same environment in this on-demand webinar.

Webinar Topics:
- The role of genetics in the control of food intake and body-weight
- Genome wide association studies and ‘common obesity’
- The fat hormone, leptin
​- Fat mass and obesity related (FTO) plays a role in the genetic susceptibility to common obesity
- The hypothalamic melanocortin pathway

View the full webinar at http://bit.ly/obesitygeneswebinar