Relaxed natural selection contributes to global obesity increase more in males than in females due to more environmental modifications in female body mass.

<h4>Objective</h4>Relaxed natural selection, measured by Biological State Index (Ibs), results in unfavourable genes/mutations accumulation in population. Obesity is partly heritable. We aim to examine and compare the effects of relaxed natural selection on male and female obesity preval...

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Main Authors: Wenpeng You, Maciej Henneberg
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2018-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article/file?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0199594&type=printable
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