Dietary Mediators of the Genetic Susceptibility to Obesity - Results from the Quebec Family Study.

Raphaëlle JacobCatherine BertrandClare LlewellynChristian CoutureMarie-Ève LabontéAngelo TremblayClaude BouchardVicky DrapeauLouis Perusse

Published in: The Journal of nutrition (2021)

The genetic susceptibility to obesity was partly mediated by poor diet quality and intakes of specific food groups. These results suggest that improvement in diet quality may reduce obesity risk among individuals with high genetic susceptibility and emphasize the need to intervene on diet quality among these individuals.

Keyphrases

weight loss
insulin resistance
metabolic syndrome
type diabetes
physical activity
genome wide
high fat diet induced
weight gain
copy number
gene expression