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Edited by Karine Clément and Thorkild I.A. Sørensen. 576 pp., illustrated. New York, Informa Healthcare, 2008. $249.95. ISBN 978-0-8493-8089-1.

Now is the perfect time for a book about obesity and genomics. The prevalence of obesity is increasing worldwide, and about two thirds of the population of the United States is obese or overweight. The fields of genetics, genomics, and pharmacogenomics are progressing rapidly and are prominent in both the lay press and scientific journals.

We can gain perspective on how far we have come in the field of obesity genetics by considering that William Osler wrote in 1892 that "the tendency to polysarcia or obesity is often hereditary." By the 1920s, reports of familial aggregation of obesity had started . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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