{"id":175600,"date":"2023-11-07T22:24:47","date_gmt":"2023-11-08T04:24:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/11\/epigenetic-signature-for-obesity-found-in-study-of-twins"},"modified":"2023-11-07T22:24:47","modified_gmt":"2023-11-08T04:24:47","slug":"epigenetic-signature-for-obesity-found-in-study-of-twins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/11\/epigenetic-signature-for-obesity-found-in-study-of-twins","title":{"rendered":"Epigenetic signature for obesity found in study of twins"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/epigenetic-signature-for-obesity-found-in-study-of-twins2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A susceptibility to gain weight may be written into molecular processes of human cells, a Washington State University study indicates.<\/p>\n<p>The proof-of-concept study with a set of 22 <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/tags\/twins\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">twins<\/a> found an epigenetic signature in buccal or cheek cells appearing only for the twins who were obese compared to their thinner siblings. With more research, the findings could lead to a simple cheek swab test for an obesity biomarker and enable earlier prevention methods for a condition that effects 50% of U.S. adults, the researchers said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cObesity appears to be more complex than simple consumption of food. Our work indicates there\u2019s a susceptibility for this disease and molecular markers that are changing for it,\u201d said Michael Skinner, a WSU professor of biology and corresponding author of the study published in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tandfonline.com\/doi\/full\/10.1080\/15592294.2023.2268834\">journal <i>Epigenetics<\/i><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A susceptibility to gain weight may be written into molecular processes of human cells, a Washington State University study indicates. The proof-of-concept study with a set of 22 twins found an epigenetic signature in buccal or cheek cells appearing only for the twins who were obese compared to their thinner siblings. With more research, the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1506,412],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-175600","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-food","category-genetics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175600","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\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=175600"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175600\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=175600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=175600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=175600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}