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. 2019 Apr 16;6(11):1900275. doi: 10.1002/advs.201900275

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Body weight is highly heritable,24, 25 however DNA sequence variations identified so far, account for only a small percentage of the observed heritability. This mismatch might potentially be due to epigenetic regulation.