Archive for the tag: epigenetics

Mar 26

Obesity Genetics & Epigenetics

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MaineHealth Let’s Go! Shorts Video Series
Obesity Genetics & Epigenetics | Episode 3

Genes and obesity | CDC
https://www.cdc.gov/genomics/resources/diseases/obesity/obesedit.htm

Genetic Syndromes Associated with Obesity | Clinical Gate
https://clinicalgate.com/genetic-syndromes-associated-with-obesity/

What is Epigenetics? | CDC
https://www.cdc.gov/genomics/disease/epigenetics.htm

Nutrition in the First 1000 Days: Ten Practices to Minimize Obesity Emerging from Published Science | NIH
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/29194402/#article-details

0:00 – Welcome
0:41 – Genetics of Obesity
1:24 – Single Gene Defects
2:20 – Genes associated with obesity
2:51 – Genetic syndromes associated with obesity
3:28 – Epigenetics
4:22 – Tale of 2 Siblings
5:10 – Next Steps
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Nov 03

What is epigenetics? – Carlos Guerrero-Bosagna

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View full lesson: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/how-the-choices-you-make-can-affect-your-genes-carlos-guerrero-bosagna

Here’s a conundrum: Identical twins originate from the same DNA … so how can they turn out so different — even in traits that have a significant genetic component? Carlos Guerrero-Bosagna explains that while nature versus nurture has a lot to do with it, a deeper, related answer can be found within something called epigenetics.

Lesson by Carlos Guerrero-Bosagna, animation by Chris Bishop.
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