Obesity: Genetic, molecular, and environ
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Lewis A. Barness; John M. Opitz; Enid Gilbert-Barness
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Article
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2007
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John Wiley and Sons
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English
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## Abstract Obesity has emerged as one of the most serious public health concerns in the 21st century. Obese children tend to become obese adults. The dramatic rise in pediatric obesity closely parallels the rapid increase in the prevalence of adult obesity. As overweight children become adults the