date:Jan 22, 2019
her extent, says lead author Mathias Rask-Andersen, Ph.D. and postdoctoral researcher at the department of Immunology, Genetics and Pathology at Uppsala University.
This has been attributed to the effects of sex hormones such as estrogen. But the molecular mechanisms that control this phenomenon are fairly unknown.
The study was based on data from UK Biobank, a cohort study of half a million participants in the UK. The participants gave blood samples for genotyping and the distribution of fat