Is a genetic predisposition to obesity fate?

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Sekar Kathiresan (Director, Center for Genomic Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital; Director, Cardiovascular Disease Initiative, Broad Institute) answers questions about polygenic scoring for obesity.

For more information, see: Khera AV, et al. Polygenic prediction of weight and obesity trajectories from birth to adulthood. Cell. Published online April 18, 2019.