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ReviewGenes2025

Obesity and the Genome: Emerging Insights from Studies in 2024 and 2025.

Lindsey G Yoo, Courtney L Bordelon, David Mendoza, Jacqueline M Stephens

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Review in Genes, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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0cells of the map it votes in
2citing papers in PubMed
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

2 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Lindsey G YooAdipocyte Biology Laboratory, Pennington Biomedical, Baton Rouge, LA 70808, USA.ORCID 0009-0002-9497-5863
Courtney L BordelonAdipocyte Biology Laboratory, Pennington Biomedical, Baton Rouge, LA 70808, USA.
David MendozaAdipocyte Biology Laboratory, Pennington Biomedical, Baton Rouge, LA 70808, USA.
Jacqueline M StephensAdipocyte Biology Laboratory, Pennington Biomedical, Baton Rouge, LA 70808, USA.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Obesity is an epidemic that currently impacts many nations. The persistence of this disease is shaped by both genetic and epigenetic factors that extend beyond calorie balance. Research in the past year has revealed that epigenetic and cellular memory within adipose tissue can predispose individuals to weight regain after initial fat loss, as shown by studies indicating persistent transcriptional and chromatin changes even after fat mass reduction. Independent studies also demonstrate long-lasting metabolic shifts, such as those triggered by glucose-dependent insulinotropic polypeptide receptor (GIPR)-induced thermogenesis and sarcolipin (SLN) stabilization that also support a form of "metabolic memory" that is associated with sustained weight loss. At the neural level, rare variants in synaptic genes like

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ObesityAnimalsEpigenesis, GeneticHumansGWASincretinsobesitypolygenic risk scoresrare variants

Identifiers

PMID41009961
PMCPMC12469687

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