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Closing the distance on obesity culprits

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Genetic variation in a non-protein-coding region of the gene FTO is implicated in obesity. A study finds evidence that, rather than affecting FTO itself, variations in this region influence expression of a distant gene, IRX3. See Letter p.371

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Figure 1: Long-range control of gene expression.

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  1. David U. Gorkin and Bing Ren are at the Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research, La Jolla, California 92093, USA.,

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  2. B.R. is also in the Department of Cellular and Molecular Medicine, University of California, La Jolla, USA.,

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Gorkin, D., Ren, B. Closing the distance on obesity culprits. Nature 507, 309–310 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1038/nature13212

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