Latest output from the GEMINI (genetics of multiple long-term conditions) team 🧬
We used genetics to subtract the effect of obesity, revealing multiple conditions that 1) share obesity as a common cause or 2) share other causes 🌟 strong implications for intervention 🥼
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doi.org/10.1038/s438...
Genetics identifies obesity as a shared risk factor for co-occurring multiple long-term conditions - Communications Medicine
Mounier et al., analyse whether obesity, measured by body mass index (BMI) affects the shared genetic risk between 71 long-term health conditions including diabetes, heart disease and arthritis. Healt...