“The extra pounds you gain during the holidays will not only show up on your hips but will also affect your DNA. This is the result of a large-scale international study coordinated by Helmholtz Zentrum München, a partner in the German Center for Diabetes Research, which has now been published in ‘Nature‘. The study shows that a high BMI leads to epigenetic changes at nearly 200 loci of the genome – with effects on gene expression.”
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