{"id":107955,"date":"2020-05-31T10:42:18","date_gmt":"2020-05-31T17:42:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/05\/scientists-discover-so-called-skinny-gene"},"modified":"2020-05-31T10:42:18","modified_gmt":"2020-05-31T17:42:18","slug":"scientists-discover-so-called-skinny-gene","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/05\/scientists-discover-so-called-skinny-gene","title":{"rendered":"Scientists Discover So-Called \u2018Skinny Gene\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-discover-so-called-skinny-gene.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>VIENNA \u2014 <\/strong>We all know that one person who can eat whatever they like and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.studyfinds.org\/study-finds-that-most-models-must-maintain-svelte-frame\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">never gain a pound<\/a>. Ice cream at 2 in the morning? Bring it on. A third, or fourth, slice of pizza? Sure, why not. For the rest of us, the genetic perks that these individuals enjoy can be frustrating to say the least. Now, a groundbreaking new international study appears to have zeroed in on the so-called \u201cskinny gene\u201d that help keep such individuals thin.<\/p>\n<p>Scientists from Austria, Canada, and Estonia say that lower, or deficient, levels of the gene <em>Anaplastic Lymphoma Kinase<\/em> (ALK) are significantly linked to skinniness and bodily resistance to weight gain.<\/p>\n<p>Most research projects focusing on <a href=\"https:\/\/studyfinds.org\/tag\/weight-loss\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">weight loss<\/a> and gain search for genes that cause obesity. This study is novel due to the fact that it focuses specifically for a gene linked to thinness instead.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>VIENNA \u2014 We all know that one person who can eat whatever they like and never gain a pound. Ice cream at 2 in the morning? Bring it on. A third, or fourth, slice of pizza? Sure, why not. For the rest of us, the genetic perks that these individuals enjoy can be frustrating to [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":518,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,412],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-107955","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-genetics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107955","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/518"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=107955"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107955\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=107955"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=107955"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=107955"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}