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61st Annual ESPE (ESPE 2023)

The Hague, Netherlands
21 Sep 2023 - 23 Sep 2023

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The 61st ESPE Annual Meeting will now be taking place in The Hague, The Netherlands

Working Group Symposia

ESPE Working Group on Obesity Symposium

hrp0097wg2.2 | ESPE Working Group on Obesity Symposium | ESPE2023

Environmental contributions to obesity development

Sørensen Thorkild I.A.

The differences between people in degree of obesity within a given population are attributable to a combination of differences in their genomes and in what they have been exposed to in the environment. The heritability, which indicates the proportion of the phenotypic variance that is due to the genomic variation within this given population, is often estimated to a broad range of 40-80%, dependent on methods used (family versus twin studies), and is often interpreted as defin...