Craig Warden, professor of neurobiology, physiology and behavior and of pediatrics at UC Davis, identifies genes linked to obesity in mice and searches for their human counterparts using databases of the human genome and comparison to humans with common single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs). A number of genes linked to obesity have been found by researchers at UC Davis and elsewhere, including uncoupling protein 2 (UCP-2).
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