Studies that implicate the environment in influencing body weight consider

A) indigenous populations where the people have lived in the same area for thousands of years and tend to all be thin.

B) populations that split, with some people remaining in the homeland and others moving to areas where their diet changes dramatically, resulting in weight gain.

C) mice bred to be obese that are given different types of junk food.

D) SNPs located throughout the genome.


B) populations that split, with some people remaining in the homeland and others moving to areas where their diet changes dramatically, resulting in weight gain.

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