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Hirschfeld also had genes and the stars on his side. He was born on the longest day of the year (June 21, 1903) to a mother who lived to 91 and a father who lived to 93 - a father who, Hirschfeld said, invented the term "senior citizen." In America, or...
More research will aim to determine whether people who are obese carry altered forms of these genes. If that proves to be the case, then some of those genes could be targets for anti-obesity drugs.
Ruvkun and his team discovered which genes were related to obesity by engineering the worms’ food to include substances that deactivated a particular gene.
Humans share about half the roundworm’s 20,000 genes, including 200 of the fat-storage genes, but whether the same gene deactivation technique will work out in humans is still unclear.
But he said the number of genes linked to fat absorption in humans might be much longer and form a more complex system within the body.