Jennifer Shine Dyer, MD, MPH, Assistant Professor of Pediatrics Nationwide Children’s Hospital, talks about the Fat Gene or the FTO gene, the gene that makes people gain weight and can be blocked by physical activity.

References and Resources: Franks PW, Jablonski KA, Delahanty LM, McAteer JB, Kahn SE, Knowler WC, Florez JC Assessing gene-treatment interactions at the FTO and INSIG2 loci on obesity-related traits in the Diabetes Prevention Program. for the Diabetes Prevention Program Research Group. Diabetologia. 2009 Jul;52(7):1456

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