Genetic control of obesity and gut microbiota composition in response to high-fat, high-sucrose diet in mice.

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Published in Cell Metab on January 08, 2013

Authors

Brian W Parks1, Elizabeth Nam, Elin Org, Emrah Kostem, Frode Norheim, Simon T Hui, Calvin Pan, Mete Civelek, Christoph D Rau, Brian J Bennett, Margarete Mehrabian, Luke K Ursell, Aiqing He, Lawrence W Castellani, Bradley Zinker, Mark Kirby, Thomas A Drake, Christian A Drevon, Rob Knight, Peter Gargalovic, Todd Kirchgessner, Eleazar Eskin, Aldons J Lusis

Author Affiliations

1: Department of Medicine/Division of Cardiology, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA. bparks@mednet.ucla.edu

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