Tubby Candidate Gene

In the 1970s, the tubby gene (normal: tub; mutated: tub) caused severe obesity in mice. Several other animal species, including humans, were subsequently found to have the tubby gene. This gene is one of several genes which, when mutated, lead to ...

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