{"id":1019,"date":"2007-06-04T19:45:24","date_gmt":"2007-06-04T18:45:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/2007\/06\/04\/hunting-down-the-obesity-gene\/"},"modified":"2007-06-08T10:06:22","modified_gmt":"2007-06-08T09:06:22","slug":"hunting-down-the-obesity-gene","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/sciencesurf\/2007\/06\/hunting-down-the-obesity-gene\/","title":{"rendered":"Hunting down the obesity gene"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Although the authors of a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/2007\/02\/05\/curiouser-and-curiouser\/\">previous paper<\/a> still desperately try to <a href=\"http:\/\/genetics.plosjournals.org\/perlserv\/?request=get-document&#038;doi=10.1371\/journal.pgen.0030061\">rescue their claim<\/a> another gene has made the race: FTO described by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencemag.org\/cgi\/content\/full\/316\/5826\/889\">Freyling<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/entrez\/query.fcgi?db=pubmed&#038;cmd=Retrieve&#038;dopt=AbstractPlus&#038;list_uids=17463248&#038;query_hl=23&#038;itool=pubmed_docsum\">Scott<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nature.com\/ng\/journal\/v39\/n6\/abs\/ng2048.html\">Dina<\/a>. I have heard that obese people may not see their toes anymore but I haven\u00c2\u00b4t heard of any fused toes, did you?<\/p>\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"bottom-note\">\n  <span class=\"mod1\">CC-BY-NC Science Surf , accessed 17.04.2026<\/span>\n <\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Although the authors of a previous paper still desperately try to rescue their claim another gene has made the race: FTO described by Freyling, Scott and Dina. I have heard that obese people may not see their toes anymore but I haven\u00c2\u00b4t heard of any fused toes, did you? &nbsp; CC-BY-NC Science Surf , accessed &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/sciencesurf\/2007\/06\/hunting-down-the-obesity-gene\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Hunting down the obesity gene<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1019","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-genetics-biology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1019","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1019"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1019\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1019"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1019"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1019"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}