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Is Obesity Inherited?

  • Eun-Seon Yoo (Department of Biological Sciences, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology) ;
  • Jong-Woo Sohn (Department of Biological Sciences, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology)
  • Received : 2023.02.03
  • Accepted : 2023.02.09
  • Published : 2023.04.30
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This work was supported by a grant from the National Research Foundation of Korea (2022R1A2C3005613 to J.-W.S.).

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