Serotonin system genes contribute to the susceptibility to obesity in Black adolescents.
Ying MengSusan W GrothColin A HodgkinsonThomas J MarianiPublished in: Obesity science & practice (2021)
The central serotonin system may play a key role in obesity development in black adolescents. Future studies are warranted to explore additional serotonin system genes and their potential obesogenic mechanisms in humans.
Keyphrases
- young adults
- insulin resistance
- metabolic syndrome
- weight loss
- physical activity
- high fat diet induced
- genome wide
- type diabetes
- weight gain
- bioinformatics analysis
- genome wide identification
- adipose tissue
- current status
- genome wide analysis
- skeletal muscle
- gene expression
- dna methylation
- body mass index
- case control
- transcription factor